@mike @CyberMatt1 ActivityPub is just a stepping stone, and an old one at that. #OcapPub is the successor.

@aral @cancel there's some recognition and of a possible solution to this problem using #objectCapabilities #ocaps #ocappub
https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

“What if we’re making the wrong assumptions about our social networks? What if we’re focusing on breadth, when we really should be focusing on depth?” (@evan, paraphrased)

Something that has me transfixed with the #fedi right now is that I don't think I've even seen such deep debate of the social and ethical implications of software anywhere in social media before. Not at this pace, anyway. Any technical "feature" has moral implications, every political decision is looking for a technical implementation. And the ground keeps shifting under our feet.

Here's @cwebber on #OcapPub: "OcapPub: Towards networks of consent"

https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

“What if we’re making the wrong assumptions about our social networks? What if we’re focusing on breadth, when we really should be focusing on depth?” (@evan, paraphrased)

Something that has me transfixed with the #fedi right now is that I don't think I've even seen such deep debate of the social and ethical implications of software anywhere in social media before. Not at this pace, anyway. Any technical "feature" has moral implications, every political decision is looking for a technical implementation. And the ground keeps shifting under our feet.

Here's @cwebber@octogon.social on #OcapPub: "OcapPub: Towards networks of consent"

https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

‘the cost, for developers and users alike, of developing a system is lower by going with the familiar rather than researching the ideal. But the consequences may nonetheless be severe.’ https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org #OcapPub

There are a lot of quotable bits and insightful passages here, and I love how it centers ethics in a tech spec but this bit is so true. I’ve long read and long loved Brian Arthur and scholars’ work on cumulative advantage and positive feedback (classic example, VHS vs Beta tapes—is that too old?), and have struggled with this as both a user (I want the ease of a popular platform but it doesn’t satisfy my needs!) and a developer (I want to make tools that actually help users’ problems instead of giving them what they’re used to).

Glad to be reminded of this struggle by the divine @cwebber.

#ocappub tng proposal: https://hackmd.io/Wzbf7p4TQ5yBNOb6VNABsw #activitypub

Q&A #APConf

The choice of JSON-LD was very contentious in ActivityPub. It's very good that you showed how to turn this into a graph.

Linked Data vs. Open Data

(hint: #OCapPub)

A graph is not necessarily public: you don't need to expose the graph. Use metadata...

Need for privacy vs. data availability

Timbl seems unaware of OCap concepts