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@sun Yeah, every subsequent Twitter wave has basically had culture shock with the wave before it. 😄

Bwaaaahahaha this classic exchange.

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@lambadalambda What's going on on your instance?


You think I'm going to ban / moderate someone because one user on mastodon.social had to read a DISSERTATION on ancap politics?

MastodonGargron on mastodon.social@sneakyness @lambadalambda@social.heldscal.la What's going on on your instance?

Around the time Mastodon entered the room, ActivityPub was already brewing in the background. Why?

1. @evan wanted to take pump.io lessons learned to the W3C
2. @cwebber wanted federation in MediaGoblin

In the end, ActivityPub almost didn't become a W3C recommendation due to time constraints if it hadn't been for the fact that

3. @Gargron wanted better privacy controls and federated DMs in Mastodon, and less papering over the gaps in OStatus

@clacke @gargron @evan This is true but I also want to highlight that @erincandescent wrote the first draft version of the spec (transformed from the Pump API), @tsyesika carried the spec through the first half of standardization, and I carried it through the second half, with major work / help from @rhiaro... and @VamptVo wrote the first draft version of ActivityPub in Mastodon which Gargron completed! Not to mention all the other people in the SocialWG, etc :)

Evan Minto

@cwebber @clacke @evan @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro So proud to have been a small part of this, and it's amazing how much farther other folks like @Gargron took it after me!