Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
Quiet public

@promoviczprom™️ @laurenshof @evanEvan Prodromou It does worry me though, and there's a reason it's so personal to me. The lack of signing of messages and content-addressing have lead to serious issues that, while ATproto does worse than us on the aspects of power distribution, it does better in terms of content survivability and portability, and these are things I thought were important *all the way back in ActivityPub standardization*, but we couldn't get to yet.

There is no "technical problems vs social problems" dichotomy. Social situations influence technical design, and technical design informs the kinds of social systems that are possible. Protocol development is all of this, mass multiplied.

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
Quiet public

@promoviczprom™️ @laurenshof @evanEvan Prodromou And for whatever it's worth, I think there are solutions to these things. EITHER ActivityPub or ATproto could incorporate the good ideas of the other and solve the parts the other lack.

And I can write down to do it. And I have, scattered across bits and pieces.

But it requires getting ecosystems to move, and it's very depressing trying to do that. I don't have the time in my life to sit through meetings trying to convince them that they need to solve the problem right now. So I just focus on building the directions I think matter.

I could write it all down though, and let everyone else do the fighting to make it happen, I suppose.

But I don't have power over the ATproto or ActivityPub worlds, really. The implementers of both do, and both have huge stakes and biases towards their own things, and investments in the directions they already are convinced they should go. I have a say, and an ability to critique, and people listen to me, but only sort of.

0
0
0

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://social.coop/users/cwebber/statuses/116182893928294813 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)