So like, one thing I really appreciate about the #GeminiProtocol is that it’s intended to be finalized and then never changed. And it’s very nearly at that point.
I also appreciate the criticisms that it’s very limited in what it allows one to do. But this also seems like a positive feature in terms of non-capture:
The web, meanwhile, is a surveillance capitalist shopping mall.
The folks with the most say over the direction of ActivityPub seem to be fully in the pocket of Meta et al.
ATProto (putting aside the fact that Bluesky almost feels like a honeypot for leftists) is supposedly going to be transferred to a standards body, but again, as we see with ActivityPub, that’s also a path to capture.
So - is anyone talking about creating a protocol that’s less limited than Gemini but is also intended to stop evolving at a certain point? Or is that an unrealistic thing to expect due to its relative complexity?
In other words, is it fair to say that greater technical complexity demands constant evolution, making capture almost inevitable?