@evan I'm afraid to ask. Who is "they"?
@scottjenson It's a meme making fun of right wing nostalgia. The original had dark conspiratorial overtones -- a spooky unnamed "they" -- but the mocking memes are more silly, with old videogame screenshots or 70s tv commercials for appliances. I saw at least one white supremacist video by searching for the phrase on X, though, so I guess it's still used by right wing creeps, too.
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@scottjenson I don't think I want to summon up that vibe, though, even in the form of a common meme. It sounds creepy to people who don't know it. I'm going to change the text.
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@scottjenson @tsyesika talked about the ActivityPub API on stage during her talk at FOSDEM yesterday. It got a lot of applause. We were talking about it at supper later and the feeling around the table was that we should really give it a go.
@scottjenson not at all!
I think the Readme for the API task force covers it pretty well.
https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api?tab=readme-ov-file#introduction
tl;dr is that social applications on ActivityPub are often built as an integrated client-server stack.
In other ecosystems, like the Facebook Platform, app developers could leave the complicated parts of storage, authentication, social graph, and distribution to the platform, and they'd just concentrate on innovate experiences at the top of the stack.
@scottjenson ATProto has had some success with third-party developers because it has this model.
I loved and hated this talk by Boris Mann @boris at Fedicon. It's eye-opening how cool and innovate these apps are. Definitely feeling a lot of envy!
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