There's a lot of great explainer sites and articles about the fediverse, but I wanted to make something that serves as a quick introduction for a more casual audience, and lets you dig deeper from there.
I'm curious, how would something like Nostr (https://nostr.com/) fit in with the Fediverse? Does it generally enhance federation or would it compete?
My understanding is that many federated services use ActivityPub protocol.
The main reason the mainstream social media apps are mainstream is because of the user base if fediverse runs on alternatives - it doesn't even matter if the alternatives are better. Without the user base Fediverse seems to miss the mark
How does this differ from wuphf from Ryan's character on The Office?
As a dev, I'm still waiting for the basic, single-binary, self-contained Rust/Go/Nim app that has been audited and is fairly locked down. Something I can passively run without a lot of drama.
Like hacker news, I don't need one-thousand-and-one cool ui tricks. Just a simple way to share text and photos with people. There should be a pretty easy way to ensure something like that could be audited to avoid every known injection issue (XSS, CSFR, SQL injection, heartbleed, CRIME, etc..)
Currently, when I look at OwnCloud and Mastodon I just picture Wordpress nightmares.
As an aside, I'm still beyond disappointed that the Activity Streams spec did not even mention the word 'encryption' one time.