Chris TrottierNov 9, 2022

The biggest mistake web devs ever made was focusing on corporate-owned APIs instead of on new and innovative open protocols.

I don't care how all-encompassing Big Social becomes -- or whether Google or Apple can keep their market valuations ongoing.

Those "critical" APIs can be yoinked at any moment.

However, SMTP and HTTP have now been used for decades. So why not build on the next generation of open protocols?

Show threadAlex WhiteNov 9, 2022
@atomicpoet what are the next generation of open protocols - the ones underlying the fediverse? Or do you have others in mind?
Show threadChris TrottierNov 9, 2022
@PlaneSailingGames Here's a helpful chart.
Show threadAlex White

@atomicpoet thanks! and ActivityPub is the protocol which glues it all together?

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

ActivityPub

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.

Nov 9, 2022 at 10:22pmWeb