Anil Dash on Nostr: As somebody who’s been in the community alongside Ben and many others for 20+ ...
As somebody who’s been in the community alongside Ben and many others for 20+ years, this is true — an entire cohort has been working since the turn of the century to return agency on the Internet to individual users & organizations instead of a cabal of centralized, abusive tech titans. We’re in the midst of a major milestone. The goal isn’t “federation”, that’s a technique. The goal is _empowerment_ and architectures that enable more accountability and less abuse over time. We’re on our way.
RE:
https://www.threads.net/@ben.werdmuller/post/C426RyIronNL_NXnedGsQc_lhsbtXlXtC834sM0 I started building my first open source social networking platform in 2003 and released it in 2004. Even back then, federation was exactly what we hoped to get to. We even created a data format, the Open Data Definition, to try and help push it along. The work folks did with ActivityStreams was a step closer, and ActivityPub got us there. It feels like a 20 year hope is being fulfilled.
Published at
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