One last thing before we go.
Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. https://xoxofest.com
@jaz @fediversereport @laurenshof all that said, I'm sure there are subtleties that I don't understand. It happens all the time.
I think you could create a (certain type of) video game using the ActivityPub 'Question'.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-question
@jaz @fediversereport @laurenshof regardless, the question was about network resilience. cosocial.ca stayed up when mastodon.social went down, not because we're an independent cooperative in a remote country, with bylaws and a privacy statement, but because our server doesn't depend on mastodon.social to run.
@jaz @fediversereport @laurenshof the point of a federation protocol is that independent entities can run independent servers. It's not incidental; it's designed in.
Before ActivityPub, I had built StatusNet. Christine and Jessica worked on MediaGoblin. Erin had made a client for pumpio. It is risible to say that we were unaware of installable servers.
@jaz @fediversereport @laurenshof "[...] And because many servers appeared, ‘network resilience’ appeared as an emergent property of this network of connected servers."
@jaz @fediversereport @laurenshof
"[...] ActivityPub is a protocol that specifies how Actors can send each other messages. Specific implementations such as Mastodon used this protocol to build twitter-like software that anyone could run for themselves. Because other people could run other ‘instances’ of the same software, servers emerged as a concept from a protocol that did not specify it. [...]"
@jaz @fediversereport @laurenshof I appreciate your generous interpretation. Here's what he said, in context:
"For the fediverse, resilience comes from the fact that there are tens of thousands of servers all interoperable with each other. But the Activitypub protocol specification does not even mention the concept of servers or instances. [...]"
@evan I will look it up! Thanks! 🙏
@Em0nM4stodon try https://write.as/ maybe?