Repost of something I put on Twitter, in response to a post about "Shuttering Google Reader Killed Blogging" https://twitter.com/dustyweb/status/1299506666640211973
a repeat mistake: being excited about a decentralized system's success because a big player moves in, becoming reliant on it, not providing a better alternative, big player leaves, decentralized system dies from shock
see also xmpp and gtalk
hoping to do better...
"Providing a better alternative" also means more than just "make the UI nice and easy to use", though that's a critical step. What is required to become a participating node in the system? How hard is it to keep that software running?
And yes, before you point it out, I don't think ActivityPub is in a good place here. But I think we can do better (and if you look, you can tell how that's impacting my current research & development)
are you referring to DataShards ?
@AbbieNormal Datashards is one component, yes! And application towards the fediverse is a large motivator there.
The next big component is the CapTP work happening in Spritely Goblins.
Ludovic Cortes published a reference to a project made in Guile a few days ago
And that resembles some of what you are doing, it mentions "capabilites" explicitely
Do you know about that ?
@cwebber @pukkamustard @emacsen
yes ! That's exaclty what I was referrign to !
I was impressed by it !
And I'm glad you know about each other !