From 3de46d5b4708cbe402b1ffe736f4e0f5a7818e6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 21:31:43 +0200 Subject: AP Debian: more transriptish --- ap_debian/transcriptish.rst | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ap_debian/transcriptish.rst b/ap_debian/transcriptish.rst index 62f863b..9861915 100644 --- a/ap_debian/transcriptish.rst +++ b/ap_debian/transcriptish.rst @@ -65,6 +65,16 @@ released the ActivityPub standard which, while not perfect, has given a big boost to interoperability between different projects. This was followed by the summer of activity pub, when the ecosystem grew significantly with the birth of many projects, often centered on -specific usecases. -Since the whole fediverse shares a common network effect, this enables a -way for new, niche, projects to get a starting boost +specific usecases, such as pixelfed for pictures or peertube for videos. + +Having such a standard also gives a platform for experimentation: new +projects can interoperate with all of the existing fediverse users, +helping them overcome the network effect in favour of existing +platforms. + +For the fediverse to work as designed, however, it is important that it +remains composed of many small instances rather than having a few big +ones that control most of its users, and here Debian could help. +Having packages in debian for a federated server would help people +install and maintain their own server + -- cgit v1.2.3