<![CDATA[Arnold Schrijver (@smallcircles) just published a fairly long thinkpiece on the future of ActivityPub and the fediverse and how we could achieve a grassroots improvement of the standards.]]>Arnold Schrijver (@smallcircles) just published a fairly long thinkpiece on the future of ActivityPub and the fediverse and how we could achieve a grassroots improvement of the standards. It's well worth a read!

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution/#fediverse-tomorrow

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]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/Profpatsch/statuses/116380809027804231https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/Profpatsch/statuses/116380809027804231Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:10:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Arnold Schrijver (@smallcircles) just published a fairly long thinkpiece on the future of ActivityPub and the fediverse and how we could achieve a grassroots improvement of the standards. on Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:01:47 GMT]]>@Profpatsch

Hey, thank you! Delighted you found my article even before I announced it on fedi 🙂

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

Thus far my poll on readership found 4 Meh skips. AI vs. long handcrafted thinkpieces: 1 - 0?

We'll see. Finding that out is also SX, after all. 😅

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://social.coop/users/smallcircles/statuses/116379831968078277https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://social.coop/users/smallcircles/statuses/116379831968078277Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:01:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Arnold Schrijver (@smallcircles) just published a fairly long thinkpiece on the future of ActivityPub and the fediverse and how we could achieve a grassroots improvement of the standards. on Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:21:24 GMT]]>Things that come to mind:

* Inbox signature validation is very vague
* jsonld is a complex standard that introduces a need for libraries, leads to slowdowns and blows up the implementation surface
* Interaction schemes like quoting requests lead to nontrivial state machines

In general: any MAY in a definition explodes the possible things that can go badly.
Which is why I think we need to use a different approach from how e.g. RFCs are structured

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/Profpatsch/statuses/116378729468956321https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/Profpatsch/statuses/116378729468956321Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:21:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Arnold Schrijver (@smallcircles) just published a fairly long thinkpiece on the future of ActivityPub and the fediverse and how we could achieve a grassroots improvement of the standards. on Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:14:43 GMT]]>I'm thinking of replying in a blog post as someone who has spent the last three months actively developing a fediverse application ().

But the most critical thought: I miss a discussion about reducing implementation complexity as much as possible. The standards leave much "wiggle room" for implementation, which I think is partly to blame for the "whack a mole" nature of support

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