The Fediverse and WordPress Should Be Better Friends, with Evan Prodromou - PublishPress
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Evan Prodromou is often called "The father of the Fediverse". It's amazing how much overlap there is between the aims of WordPress and Fediverse. These two communities should work together more! The Fediverse consists of independent social networking platforms including Mastodon (micro-blogging), PeerTube (videos), Pixelfed (images) and more. Just like…
  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
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    4 months ago

    I think proposals like Bridgy Fed and Minds.com are better, bridges run by independent groups, instead of changes being forced onto the underlying engine. When the latter is done, devs need to make changes based on the smallest common denominator, slowing or even halting individual development of environments. Bridges at least are developed adjacent to multiple environments instead of having to change fundamentals.

    • julian@activitypub.space
      7·
      4 months ago

      auster@thebrainbin.org may I ask you to expand in what you mean by “same underlying engine”?

      If you’re talking about ActivityPub then it’s a open standard which isn’t beholden to any one organization. It’s like saying HTML is bad because websites are all forced to use it as the underlying engine.