> and there are going to be hosting providers that do that work for you
There are hosting providers doing that work for you, though several of them are overwhelmed too at the moment. There'll be more.
I run my own, and it's not hard but it's certainly still too much hassle for casual users, so I think there's definitely space for more hosting services.
> I'm not bullish on "the fediverse" as a federation of communities with some global norms
Yeah, a lot of these norms will collapse in the face of a broader user base that want Twitter 2.0, and don't care about a lot of the ideological stuff going on with Mastodon and other current Fediverse software.
> But having actually used it now, I think the underlying technology is a lot smarter than I gave it credit for, and I think it stands a decent chance of being important.
Treating ActivityPub w/WebFinger as a globallly addressable signed pubsub queuing system in itself is very interesting. You can build so much more on top of that than "just" "Twitter 2.0" or Mastodon. Of course there are some examples of that, like Pixelfed, but I think we're just scratching the surface of reimagining services on top of a layer like that.
There are hosting providers doing that work for you, though several of them are overwhelmed too at the moment. There'll be more.
I run my own, and it's not hard but it's certainly still too much hassle for casual users, so I think there's definitely space for more hosting services.
> I'm not bullish on "the fediverse" as a federation of communities with some global norms
Yeah, a lot of these norms will collapse in the face of a broader user base that want Twitter 2.0, and don't care about a lot of the ideological stuff going on with Mastodon and other current Fediverse software.
> But having actually used it now, I think the underlying technology is a lot smarter than I gave it credit for, and I think it stands a decent chance of being important.
Treating ActivityPub w/WebFinger as a globallly addressable signed pubsub queuing system in itself is very interesting. You can build so much more on top of that than "just" "Twitter 2.0" or Mastodon. Of course there are some examples of that, like Pixelfed, but I think we're just scratching the surface of reimagining services on top of a layer like that.