Something interesting to think about for twtxt, the microblogging for hackers and friends…

The biggest challenge of ActivityPub is that it’s too technical to easily explain to regular people. Nobody is interested in a jargon-laden diatribe about servers and federation. When simple questions have overly complex answers, people tend to switch off.
https://activitypub.ghost.org/your-thoughts-on-onboarding/

Feels like a wider problem with the Internet and to some extent computing as a whole. I’m not advocating for elitism or hostile design, but things are being dumbed down to a ridiculous extent - everyone is encouraged to use their computer as a social media box, streaming + gaming console, not learning how it works (even at the most surface level), no more making your own website, your game you never finish, your collection of media in various file formats… When there is an error, you get a generic error message, the networking app is afraid to let the user come into contact with any networking, past scanning the WiFi QR code or plugging in the Internet cable.

Back when I was in primary school, everyone wanted to run their own personal blog website about nonsense nobody else cared about, downloaded songs, movies, games they had to solve problems to run. Maybe we should once again encourage people to think, at least a little.

@eapl.me@eapl.me Agree 👍

I couldn’t agree more

@eapl.me@eapl.me I couldn’t care less about ActivityPub, but twtxt is the thing for hackers by design. That’s the appealing part for me, personally. I actually do enjoy that not everybody and their dogs are here. :-)

@thecanine@twtxt.net I agree!