Why the fediverse is stuck.

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[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Check out Movim, a social network built on XMPP.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Meh, this was a shallow and hyperbolic critique. ActivityPub is essentially the same as SMTP- a domain specific protocol for sending data around.

There were no technical arguments or examples of bad ActivityPub concepts.

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I haven't looked at ActivityPub, so I can't judge it. But the basic argument is that ActivityPub is overcomplicated, which is what I expect of anything designed by modern scum. And overcomplicated standards just don't work. This is why almost all standards currently in use were designed before modern culture became fully depraved.

[–]fatman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Besides the technical points, Fediverse/Mastodon sucks because the network is de-facto operated by a bloc of instances that blacklist any other instances that don't apply enough censorship and enforce liberal ideology over unwitting users.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Like when* Mastodon prevented Gab from existing. Oh wait that didn't happen. Like when Lemmy prevented non-commie instances from existing. Oh wait that didn't happen.

The tools are in place for every instance to do what they want, as it should be.

[–]fatman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah just like subreddits! Look how that turned out.