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[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.

(2019). By Kaniini. Follow up on ActivityPub criticisms and recommendations. (SSL cert. issue)

(2019) Kaniini's discussion of "worse is better" in an ActivityPub context. (SSL cert issue)

Discussion of ActivityPub problems on HackerNews (2019).

Criticism of ActivityPub by Dennis Schubert. (2018)

There are a number of issues with the decentralized nature of the Fediverse. One of them is that we are not seeing replies from people we do not follow.

Discussion of how collections are used in ActivityPub.