I'm a lot more excited about ActivityPub than I am about AI atm. Both are cool, but very different energy.
What's most interesting to me about ActivityPub (at least right now) is less the specific technology, and more the people who it's bringing together.
ActivityPub, the idea, is a little campfire attracting a fascinating band of misfits to gather around it.
@johnonolan Mainstream AI is as MEGACORP as it gets. The fediverse is the best kind of counter-cultural scene, where real friendships are made.
@erlend Exactly. A lot of it feels like early web ~2005ish, and I love that
@johnonolan please just bury me in a web-of-2005 time capsule
@erlend omg same
@johnonolan ActivityPub is a protocol that better facilitates a connection between people, generative AI is a technology that better facilitates removing other humans from the interaction.
@johnonolan It’s the network-effect vs the unnetwork-effect.
@johnonolan I am super hyped for ActivityPub. Long my it exist.
@johnonolan We are all sitting here like the end of Outer Wilds, hoping everything works out OK somehow
Fuck you, you're not crying I'm crying
@johnonolan We just need to get education on board with ActivityPub with local/known login and ownership and away from corporate login and ownership of children’s data. #education #edtech
@johnonolan I am not a fan of AI yet or I may never be