2017: mastodon instances
2018: everybody writes their own ActivityPub server from scratch, the fediverse gets real weird
@tcql I've found a lot of faith in Pleroma. And it's wirtten in Elixir so I can contribue a lot :) Made a small alt instance on it, https://pigs.social
@href ya i'm getting into elixir now so my interest is piqued about pleroma
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@tcql 2019: everybody fluently speaks activitypub, and communicate using netcat. high speed is achieved with voice through a federation of mumble servers since the vson (voice json) specification.
@CobaltVelvet yooooo vson sounds great
it'll spin off a couple of variants for faster parsing and streaming; ud+vson ("uhhh"-delimited vson) and sd+vson ("stop"-delimited vson, which functions like oldschool telegrams, where you say "stop" between syntactically valid interpretable segments of a message)
@tcql I’m thinking the next step is opening ActivityPub servers to any AS2 activity (not just Note/Article) then it gets fun.
@sivy ??? Nothing about the spec limits the type of activities you can send....
@nightpool yeah, I was confusing Mastodon’s implementation with the spec
@tcql I wouldn't bet on that. Very few people run their own email servers, let alone implement them.
@isagalaev @tcql it's because e-mail is a shit protocol yo
@tcql That would be awesome! Let’s DO this!
@tcql And I'm contributing to this trend by wanting to write an ActivityPub server as a way to learn Rust.
@jaycie do it do it do it
@tcql To paraphrase William Gibson, the future's nearly here, and it's completely distributed? Also https://fed.brid.gy/
@neil oh neato!
@tcql 2018 gonna be awesome ! :)