Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is an engaging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon. Some good bits: his analysis of why Threads never fully integrated with ActivityPub (lawyers became a problem, then Threads become popular so they didn't need to integrate), what ActivityPub needs to become successful (the people matter more than the technology) and why there isn't an ActivityPub ATmosphere merger (AT is more like RSS for social, while AP is more thought out and developed by W3C).

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