The blogging platform Ghost is working on implementing social web functions with ActivityPub. They are talking about it very openly (and entertaining) on https://activitypub.ghost.org. I think they are the first to get this whole »Social Web« thing going in a way that is ready for non-techies.
Here is what they say in their newest post:
The biggest challenge of ActivityPub is that it’s too technical to easily explain to regular people. Nobody is interested in a jargon-laden diatribe about servers and federation. When simple questions have overly complex answers, people tend to switch off.
Our job, as product builders, is to understand the jargon and complexity of the specification ourselves, and then abstract as much of it away as we can so that end users don’t have to think about it themselves.
from https://activitypub.ghost.org/your-thoughts-on-onboarding/
Exactly! I’m very excited how this will turn out.
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