Post #1339722

@evan If after a bunch of years the AP dev community came all together in a big event and reflected on the past, suppose they might conclude: "We have evolved into a decentralized copy of existing big tech social media platforms." You can say that it is evolution, and you'd be right too. But is it the best evolution we could have had? Which branch of the Tree of Fedi Life did we grow? If now that branch can only form microblog-like sub-branches, is it evolution? Evolution is in the eye of the beholder. I am inclined even say that ActivityPub in its original raw potential constitute magic seeds for trees that over time will form a large forest, whereas fedi has branched from the single tree, and you can choose to be a sub-branch. Both can technically be said to constitute progress. But one has more power and promise for rich tapestry social web.