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1. Cy (cy@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-May-2022 08:05:19 UTC Cy

   The #ActivityPub standard reads like someone who just discovered what "the programming" is.
   > For federated servers performing delivery to a third party server, delivery SHOULD be performed asynchronously
   Why is that in the specification? Just because some starry eyed n00b heard of "asynchronous," and was just specifying whatever they could think of that sounded like it'd be super cool, even though it has nothing to do with the protocol.

   • humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-May-2022 08:05:18 UTC humanetech

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     @cy don't know about the particular spec snippet, but think you will find the authors *way* beyond n00b level.

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   • Cy (cy@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-May-2022 09:16:38 UTC Cy

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     • humanetech

     @humanetech There are many professions where the people are compassionate and kind, until you start trying to enter the field, especially the ones that people sweated and cried over. People like being important, and needed, so it's tempting to say things like "The server MUST accept a valid [ActivityStreams] object that isn't a subtype of Activity in the POST request to the outbox" even though that just make things complicated.

   • humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-May-2022 09:16:38 UTC humanetech

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     @cy I admire your passion to make the Fediverse a better place, and gladly invite you to SocialHub community dedicated to improving the ecosystem and evolve the interoperability and open standards.

     The activity of the community has unfortunately waned, and we can use all the help we can get to get more collaboration and cross-pollination going. There's tons of work to do as you rightfully observe and only few volunteers spending some of their precious time.

     https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks

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   • Cy (cy@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-May-2022 09:16:39 UTC Cy

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     • humanetech

     @humanetech Right, so it reads like some starry eyed n00b, but it was actually written to be deliberately obtuse, to add barriers to entry in hopes of making their professional position more secure at the expense of all the actual n00bs.

   • humanetech (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-May-2022 09:16:39 UTC humanetech

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     @cy that is cynical take. Maybe warranted for some W3C open standards, idk, but the authors of #ActivityPub are fedizens that have spent blood, sweat and tears and countless hours volunteering for the community and the commons to help make the #Fediverse what it currently is.

     It is now time for others to take over and bring the fedi to a higher level, building on what was established before. This is a problem as most people work on their own apps, less on making the ecosystem more accessible.