@alpacaherder having more federated platforms has got to be better? 

@kat @alpacaherder pump.io has a lot of catching up to do. it's not compatible with ostatus... or activitypub... it's using "activitypump" which is outdated.. so yeah questionably choice to pick up that particular project instead of anything else that's around right now

@gargron @kat @alpacaherder It explicitly has the aim to implement ActivityPub and it shouldn't be too much effort to accomplish. It's just that strugee is the main person making changes and he's pretty tied up.

If these people do it, great, pump can merge their changes.

The usual reason for forking is that some gatekeeper is not responsive, but they just forked out of the blue, there's no queue of unreviewed commits from them.