Fediverse Bookmarks

"The short version of this is that I believe that Mastodon — more specifically federation and decentralization won't work out."

Discussion of issues with AP-AT bridges.

Experience report of attempting to write an ActivityPub server in OCaml.

Note for implementing ActivityPub federation.

There are four ways in which ActivityPub is a non-standard standard. This work is informed by reading the Social Web Working Group (SocialWG) meeting minutes, interviews with SocialWG members, and a study of historical documents.

"Unwanted messages are a challenge for all public communication systems. On a federated network without a central form of control, the challenge is extended to allowing for free communication between parties without a central means of control while at the same time preventing undesired or harmful messages." RWOT9 in Prague, The Czech Republic (September 2019)

[Video] "Four years later, while the fediverse plays host to a thriving community and unique culture, it remains a nonentity by the standards of social media giants. Why is this? How has ActivityPub created a constructive and enjoyable social media experience while also failing to bring that experience to a large audience? And what can this tell us about the possibilities and limitations of anarchistic spaces as a whole?"

Discusses ActivityPub, W3C, Linked Data and some of the related issues.

Follow-up by Dennis Shubert on earlier ActivityPub criticisms. (2019)

(or: Why can't the decentralized social web people just get along?)
Lemmer-Webber's response to criticisms of ActivityPub specification.