The Verge just interviewed Evan Prodromou. That is, @evan@cosocial.ca, Research Director at @swf@socialwebfoundation.org, and co-author of #ActivityPub. And he shares some big news:
- The W3C is working on end-to-end encryption for ActivityPub
- The W3C is also working on group standards that have interoperability across the #Fediverse
- Evan predicts a big 100M+ user network joining the Fediverse, and it’s not Threads
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It’s interesting that Evan Prodromou mentions groups, but doesn’t mention Lemmy, Friendica or even the Guppe group implementation.
He’s also weirdly overly warm to both Threads and BlueSky.
- Evan predicts a big 100M+ user network joining the Fediverse, and it’s not Threads
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Evan’s job is to help build a standard implementation for groups for the W3C. He is also trying to pitch ActivityPub to organizations big and small.
I would honestly have been worried if the main people behind the protocol were busy trying to gatekeeep it.
@atomicpoet @sabreW4K3 I doubt it will happen. As with Wordpress.com, Tumblr/Wordpress integration will be #OptIn. We don’t have stats for Wordpress.com (and Threads for that matter) but opt-in very rarely reaches 25% of the userbase.
Unless they plan on making it enabled by default, which no doubt will anger the opt-in crowd & the group that is anti-federation with anything “existing network” or “corporate-backed”.
If it’s not enabled by default, 10M is probably the best estimate, and that’s being generous.
@atomicpoet @fediversenews great news here, to be honest. That is a great sign.
I wish they provided a transcript. I prefer reading than listening when I’m not outside (and I rarely go out these days). They only provided links to previous articles, unless those were what they talked about?
@atomicpoet @fediversenews this is enormous! Great stuff!
He kinda teased that bit about ‘some other 100M user network will join the Fediverse this year’. I wanna know who!
Great interview. It’ll be curious to see whether big platforms end up making a whole-hearted adaptation of ActivityPub this year as they have claimed they will.
Evan Prodromou, the research director at the Social Web Foundation and one of the people overseeing the ActivityPub protocol
It’s interesting how they don’t even mention that he was part of the small group of people who defined the protocol in the first place. I’m sure the Social Web Foundation is great, but it’s not all that obvious what their role will be.
Hyperlink to article unrelated, lol.
It’s a video. The first half is about Tesla, the second half is about ActivityPub
