@rysiek @strypey

Carlin said it best... always try being hopeful but it's gotten real bad. https://mastodon.social/media/dgUERe7ss2RZrPh8Rm4

@sten0_SE @strypey I'd rather we finally learn, as humanity, that perhaps we could do this without the bloodshed and suffering.

But yeah, idealist-turning-cynic here.

@sten0_SE @strypey ah, the pain is definitely going to happen, and probably soon. The fun part is that the part of the left that kept saying "voting is bull, democracy is dead" is still partially guilty of bringing this self-fulfilling prophecy on us all.

"Hey, the system doesn't work well; let's completely disengage and hope for the best, what could possibly go wrong."

@maiyannah @deadsuperhero For one thing, we might finally get a common protocol so that Diaspora, GNU Social, Pump.IO, MediaGoblin, Mastodon, etc all work together. I'm also working on a test suite so there should be less "errors" between implementations.

That was the main goal of the working group (and why we spent so long getting community feedback).

Oh boy, Evan Prodromou (of #StatusNet / #Pump / #OStatus fame) showed up on #Diaspora's GitHub Issue tracker and asked that we support #ActivityPub

It's a nice thought, and hopefully we can do that in the long term. But some part of me is apprehensive about the spec and the leg work it will take to support it.

There are certain unanswered questions, such as "Will ActivityPub support Diaspora's federated privacy controls?"

Evan Prodromou kindly offered to help with ActivityPub's test suite. Now I gotta clean up this pile of Scheme enuf so someone else can read it :)

@maiyannah It's a hard problem. I work with browsers, and interoperability/compatibility is a huge topic of discussion. One project we started too late was a shared test suite (https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests). Maybe the federation needs some sort of equivalent to the W3C/WHATWG.

turns out you can get a lot done with this one simple trick: turn of the intarwebs for a while

made 3x progress on the activitypub test suite today than I have any other day this week

@bottitytto @hakui ostatus doesn't really have a spec so much as "put these 20 protocols in a bowl, blend, put in the oven and hope for the best". is there a test suite somewhere?

@strypey Ahh! I see. I didn't understand the relationship.

I suppose there are more Mastodon instances that may be unaccounted for on the list, but then there's a MUCH BROADER universe that is the general Fediverse.

Thanks for the link!