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  • Christine Lemmer-Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber   •   Nov 29

    @erincandescent And also completely in alignment, unshockingly, with Erin that "I thought we were going to work on exactly these kinds of problems in the Social Web Working Group but instead we focused on dodging bullets as two camps sniped at each other"

    And actually a correction: there were *three camps* in the group: the linked data, activitypub, and indieweb people, and two of three of those (activitypub and linked data) hit convergence but I think the indieweb and linked data sniping is just too embedded for ridiculous personal grudge reasons, cough tantek vs timbl cough). Gosh. That was unnecessary hell. Don't do another SocialWG, anyone who wants to re-charter. Do an ActivityPubWG and focus on solving the problems we have, stay focused.

    The Indieweb vs Linked Data sniping things is one of the worst, most absurd fights in the entire standards space. Waste of time, energy, and years of peoples' lives. Certainly took a few off mine.

    Aaron Parecki
    I remember it slightly differently, I don't know that I would call it "convergence". There's no ActivityPub support in Solid or Inrupt for example. More like the Linked Data crowd really wanted to get LD into ActivityPub, which they eventually got for some reason.

    There was also quite a lot of pushback from early ActivityPub implementers against the LD part of the spec. I still maintain the LD part has no value to ActivityPub and it would be better as plain JSON. I'm also 99% sure most implementations ignore the LD part too.
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

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