markjgsmith

2023/12/17 #

Moving on ActivityPub - What with all the movement in ActivityPub this week, with Threads announcing they are actively implementing and testing their integration, the programmer in me thought of an extreme but I think vital test case that must pass. Without this, I don't think there is freedom.

It's the case where every person on the network follows an individual, and that individual decides to move fediverse instances. It might seem like an extreme use case but it's actually quite an important one. We live in a very strange world. The strangest things happen.

Interestingly, given it's size, Threads is probably the best entity to test this use case.

It would be really cool if they open sourced their integration, but also gave visibility into the automated tests. That way you could easily check what their integration really supported. #

Today’s links:

  • Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse - Looks like all the essentials will be supported including following accounts from other fediverse instances, seing replies in your home timeline and eventually also moving followers between fediverse instances. Currently it only works with a few of their testing accounts. ETA is about a year, which seems very long IMO given there are only 3 features. Ability to walk away is key, that's a feature that historically companies have been very unwilling to ship, even in apparrently freedom-centric areas like for example bitcoin. www.theverge.com #

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