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(1/7) I have to remember to stop using the hashtag #fediverse, because we're supposed to say #WebSocial now instead. Why does that matter?
Language and optics go hand in hand, and as times have revealed, federation might not be the silver bullet people believe it to be, nor does it actually condense what the underlying technology is about.
We've essentially created a jungle telegraph in protocol form, that can take #ActivityPub into a weird and wonderful future.
A #platform, is a platform, is a platform. The user don't care.
What is that, a #CSR on #serverless, an #SSR hooked up to a #VPS - or maybe you even manage your own #kubernetes. Daring, aren't we?
For some people, this is all static. But, they know what the #web is. They know that it's where the crawlers live.
When I look at this chart, I think #WebSocial has a ring to it that might project "Other" into the top 5 - maybe even top 3.
Why?
The job of #WebSocial is put squarely in the lap of companies that do #WebDesign and #SysOps - where it always belonged. It's apart of the giant #Web that we all use everyday.
It's more typified, normalized and familiar and can then also be viewed in a utilitarian way, in that #ActivityPub provides a public broadcasting function via the web.
Yes inbox, yes outbox, but no braining. Stahp!
Web Social is a broadcast system for the web, where users could communicate with each other.
Das it.
This way, when I do promotional stuff for the web in future, I'll be taking into account that a domain can be project specific, like say a film that needs promotional static website, and that you don't want to run anything heavy here - because it needs to run for a long time.
But you might want the facade of #WebSocial. Like a site having tops 10 posts in it's lifetime - and that's it. All comment functions, all interactive parts of #ActivityPub are non functional because it was a one off.
Of course, you do realize that I want the original #SpaceJam #Website to have at least a couple of posts using the #ActivityPub protocol, preferably one by @BugsBunny@SpaceJam.com that says:
"Michael sure can play! But everyone's distracted by Lola..."
And maybe some homage to Tex Avery, if he wasn't a complete monster.
In any case, you get my point. It's not actually a #SocialPlatform, a #Service, or any kind of #platform at all. The web just got a jungle telegraph. Have at it, Hoss.
#WebSocial and #ActivityPub is the future for the #web, as any other web #technology, but we must also see how it can be used to create more diversity and opportunity.
Of course some of you are twitching, because now you're afraid of #ActivitySpam. It can't be helped though. At some junction that's just going to be a problem no matter what.
The point is Web Social is a tool to interact with other sites, with audiences, as well as users. Communicating like this encompasses it's purpose.
(7/7) In short, we say #WebSocial instead of the #Fediverse to truly unlock the potential of what it can be, and that is a communication system built on top of established, decentralized technology, under the umbrella of none other than #W3C.
By unpoliticizing the word, we've basically given it verbage and actual purpose. Are you going to post content on #WebSocial with #ActivityPub? How will you do it? Single user? Multi user? Actual platform?
Giving creators that power can foster magic.