Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
To those of you pushing for ActivityPub:<p>Webber&#x27;s trashed it (the initial author) and is working on a way to mitigate the problems of it by implementing incompatible changes, the biggest piece of software claiming to implement it doesn&#x27;t even implement it (Mastodon), the only piece of software that stays semi-faithful is full of devs who hate it (Pleroma).<p>AP is completely broken for anything but publicly-scoped content, relying on a lot of trust for every party involved. This gets broken frequently, and has had consequences so far on networks implementing it (like half of them are incompatible implementations, so I think it&#x27;s completely fine to say &quot;networks&quot;).<p>The specification itself is far too ambiguous. Here&#x27;s a post by a maintainer of Diaspora explaining this part further: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;schub.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;schub.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;activitypub-one-protocol-to...</a><p>So let&#x27;s assume you can get Twitter to implement ActivityPub perfectly to-spec. Great! It doesn&#x27;t work with literally any pre-existing ActivityPub software, and users&#x27; DMs and are more or less public, with users&#x27; private accounts literally being public.<p>I use AP daily, and while it&#x27;s fine for technical users with a reasonable understanding that anything they post is public, putting naive users&#x27; data at risk has never and will never be acceptable; pushing AP will harm everyone.