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The old school hacker crowd is so blind-rage anti-cryptocurrency they're letting pretty great novel things like Nostr and Farcaster fly under their radar. If they tried to mimic these designs you'd end up with worse cryptography (because all the new interesting stuff is mostly related to cryptocurrency) and would probably look like PGP + key servers. They'll make an excuse to put up with the status quo and live with it.

Both Nostr and Farcaster have weaknesses in their design but they do provide a good foundation for decentralized social media that could survive longer term without your content disappearing off the internet permanently. It's just a hard pill for some people to swallow because the design breaks from tradition.

I predict ActivityPub will exist in some form for a long time but there will be a lot of data lost over the years. It's already happening.

@feld I thought it would be obvious to everyone how important client-side signing and portable objects are. But I hear mostly crickets when it comes to those FEPs and the problem in general.

It would seem that a lot of people actually like control over other people's stuff. As an admin, I absolutely hate that our users have to depend on us to even enable follower migration in the first place, while content migration is not even a thing.

@raucao @feld It's not about control, it is about resources. Some developers may want to implement these FEPs, but that requires a lot of effort (especially if you're among the early adopters), and they can't commit to it. Other so called "protocols" are paying developers, so stuff gets done much quicker.

Râu Cao ⚡

@silverpill @feld My point is that architectural basics *that* important should be on the roadmap of e.g. the Mastodon company, and prominent AP authors and proponents should be calling for them.

@silverpill @feld I agree that it's way too much to ask from just any casual contributors, or sole implementers of small projects.

I mean, I pondered this myself, and that idea didn't get far when I played it out in my head.

@raucao @feld These things are on the roadmap, but solutions are supposed to be developed in-house.