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This statement is going to live rent-free in my head for a long time to come, I suspect. #ActivityPub
@hrefna @tchambers I see a lot of irony in this being an image rather than a quote toot
I’m probably out of the loop or daft on something. Is there any reason in particular why it’s gonna live rent free or why the comment about screenshots strikes so hard?
A few things.
First, that is _laughably_ far from where we are today.
Second, to the degree we are there it has very little to do with ActivityPub and more to do with people believing in the vision of the fediverse.
Finally, given the lack of support for (and the massive resistance toward) quote-boosting, differing formats between platforms, etc it's hard to see how you can claim that the vision of not using screenshots is something that we are approaching.
Further driving home that last point is the outright hostility in certain corners toward "bridge" technologies or towards anything that might look like it hypothetically may make it onto a major (or minor but wannabe major) social media platform.
Incidentally I recently ranted along similar lines, bringing up screen shots: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul@akkomane.social/112278407165110460
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In fact, I’d argue that what we have now is strange. Each piece of social media interaction has to get translated into whatever my current platform decides is the appropriate format and understanding of that interaction. In reality, that’s really not much progress on the screen shots used to share inter-platform content on big (unfederated) social media.
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