• maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    No, just the work of building the federation part of a platform.

    Look at both mastodon and Lemmy, both have a huge blind spot for a major part of the ActivityPub protocol. Mastodon doesn’t manage groups well and Lemmy doesn’t manage users well, as content creating actors that is. This is obviously by design to a large extent, but the difficulty of expanding the bounds of a platform to include more of the spec seems to clearly be part of the problem.

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      1 year ago

      Part of what problem? It would be nice if we could all communicate easily but it’s not really a problem. Just like twitter and facebook not really communicating isn’t a problem. If they decide to blend them, cool. If not, that’s cool too.

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        1 year ago

        Part of what problem?

        That platforms struggle to interact with each other more than the promise of the fediverse implies.

        Segregated platforms is a hang over from competitive big social. It’s all just text messages in the end as webpages are all just HTML. Part of the promise of the fediverse is to break down these capitalistic walls. If it’s too hard to engineer though, then the promise may need some rethinking.