Post 3545496 by alexl@mstdn.io
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(DIR) Post #3430574 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-27T14:53:17Z
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@cwebber I made these diagrams, can you please tell me if my understanding is correct?
(DIR) Post #3459887 by tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se
2019-01-28T08:37:57+00:00
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@alexl You could think even bigger. There shouldn't be "Mastodon" or "PeerTube" native clients, but rather everything should be specified in RFCs such that entirely generic clients can be written. Then trouts could be applied to certain BDFLs until they actually implement said RFCs
(DIR) Post #3481738 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-28T13:23:27Z
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@tomas there would be confusion, see XMPP clients... we need very different platforms (blogging, microblogging, newspapers, video and audio streaming, issue tracking, collaborative editing, ) each one with its own user experience but federating "actions" and "objects".For example I could use even a Mastodon client to reply to comments in a issue on GitLab but I would still need a native GitLab client to perform actions like pull request or fork.
(DIR) Post #3481739 by tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se
2019-01-28T20:32:23+00:00
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@alexl Myes, but a lot of these things would need to be implemented in most clients anyway. Webtorrent for example, would be useful in all kinds of places, not just PeerTube. And if you have that in your generic AP microblogging client, and the client knows about banggroups, then it is effectively also a PeerTube client. But that said, branding can be a very useful and good thing. You know, the comparison to XMPP is apt. I've said before that AP will start having the same problems that XMPP has had to deal with. This always happens.
(DIR) Post #3500533 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-28T22:46:11Z
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@tomas I disagree, it's not a matter of just branding, but having different platforms with different features for different people. If an actor is on another platform expect less interactions with one using the same platform or login in the other platform with the same account and enjoy it.XMPP approach was proven wrong and in fact anything else follow it so I don't know what you are referring to...
(DIR) Post #3500534 by tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se
2019-01-29T08:15:17+00:00
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@alexl I dunno, to me "platforms" in a federated open system are the same as branding. I guess time will tell..
(DIR) Post #3507018 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-29T10:25:21Z
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@tomas Mastodon and Pleroma target different users, same for Plume and Write.as. Different user experience, different hardware resources needed. Different developing models (community-driven etc). Different languages, frameworks and technologies.AP is intended to federate everything around the concepts of activities. How can you think an all-in-one social network would be better? We had Diaspora already. AP can be a totally new approach to Web not only social networks
(DIR) Post #3507019 by tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se
2019-01-29T12:45:18+00:00
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@alexl You know what? Sure. People are excited about federation again and that's good. It's not me who has to roll the boulder up the hill after all, and maybe the API incompatibility issue will be resolved in time
(DIR) Post #3513721 by 0x1C3B00DA@edolas.world
2019-01-29T16:24:43.159058Z
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@alexl @tomas Mastodon and Pleroma target different users, same for Plume and Write.asThat’s not true. They’re targeting the same space and same users. They have different UX because they’re different projects built by different teams. These AP projects fall into buckets like (microblogging, macroblogging, video sharing) and any client made for one would likely work for another project in the same bucket. Specific features may be missing or only available on specific servers, but the overall experience should be the same.
(DIR) Post #3527259 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-29T22:12:02Z
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@0x1C3B00DA of course they target different users, I don't really understand how you can disagree on this
(DIR) Post #3527260 by 0x1C3B00DA@edolas.world
2019-01-29T23:08:24.110197Z
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@alexl I just explained how. Pleroma and mastodon are targeting people who want microblogging. If you don't recognize server names, you wouldn't even know if people you're chatting with are on Pleroma or mastodon. An AP Note is a Note regardless of where it comes from. The well written fediverse apps work with both fairly seamlessly. What software a user is using is most likely down to the people and topics on the local timeline.
(DIR) Post #3539068 by mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se
2019-01-29T12:33:34+00:00
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@alexl what do you imply that !XMPP's approach was? And how does it differ from ActivityPub's approach?
(DIR) Post #3539069 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-29T16:08:08Z
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@mmn I'm not an expert but my understanding is:XMPP: trying to define spec per-feature, hope people implement XMPP servers and clients, assuming the user knows each client and each server which feature/spec support.ActivityPub: federating everything that involves actions, actors and objects, defining how communications happen and provide some example of actions etc for common use cases.Every platform can implement AP because is very abstract, see Mastodon.
(DIR) Post #3539070 by mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se
2019-01-30T05:29:46+00:00
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@alexl Right, I think you've managed to misunderstand both XMPP _and_ AP in this case. You might want to check out the well authored, established and implemented XEPs out there for XMPP and compare with AP where this doesn't exist for the most part. The AP base spec might be object agnostic, which I think you're using as the base argument?, but XMPP is too. They're not comparable in maturity.
(DIR) Post #3545496 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-30T11:14:47Z
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@0x1C3B00DA Come on, Mastodon and Pleroma are very different, I can say to each of my not-geek friends to join Mastodon, I can't with Pleroma."Microblogging" is very generic, or do you think that WordPress, Tumblr, Drupal, Joomla, Blogger, Hugo, Jekyll, Plume, Write.as target the same users because they are about blogging?
(DIR) Post #3545497 by 0x1C3B00DA@edolas.world
2019-01-30T12:02:18.236017Z
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@alexl why couldn't tell your friends to use Pleroma? It doesn't require any more technical knowledge than mastodon. If you web up a pleroma account on the mastoFE and a mastodon account, an end user wouldn't find much difference between the two. As for the software, you named multiple different types of applications. There's a CMS, static site generators, and hosted blogging platforms and that's how I would group them. So I would say Plume and write.as are targeting the same users, though write.as is targeting more users since it offers a paid service
(DIR) Post #3552940 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-30T11:06:17Z
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@mmn XMPP totally failed, it was OK for very basic single chat ten years ago. Now clients for Android, desktop and Web implement different sets of features.With XMPP I can't say to someone "register to platform.com and download a client for your device". Instead Mastodon IS a platform and it has ITS OWN clients that offers consistent UX.XMPP can't be abstract as AP because they are protocols for totally different things. Matrix replaces XMPP.
(DIR) Post #3552941 by tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se
2019-01-30T16:40:14+00:00
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@alexl That's still just branding
(DIR) Post #3553453 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-30T13:06:15Z
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@0x1C3B00DA "MastoFE"... let's complicate things. After all Arch is easy to install and use, no? No need to reccomend distro like Ubuntu or MintAbout the second part, you got it...
(DIR) Post #3553454 by 0x1C3B00DA@edolas.world
2019-01-30T17:00:41.508306Z
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@alexl one of the first things users do on the fediverse is ask about other apps. Having multiple frontends isn't unique to Pleroma. Most existing clients work with both mastodon and Pleroma. It sounds like you're just talking about different features but a lot of AP services are in active development. They have planned features but that doesn't mean they have a different audience
(DIR) Post #3566876 by mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se
2019-01-30T23:13:16+00:00
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Hello brick wall.
(DIR) Post #3568719 by tuttle@santsenques.cat
2019-01-31T01:05:21.082402Z
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@alexl Yes, and even more, ActivityPub, XMPP and Matrix are different to each other in the sense they all are run SMTP under the hood. @mmn
(DIR) Post #3568811 by tuttle@santsenques.cat
2019-01-31T01:08:33.517966Z
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@alexl Well not completely, AP is written in node.js, the others aren't. @mmn
(DIR) Post #3578558 by alexl@mstdn.io
2019-01-31T09:21:00Z
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@tuttle you are not fun