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ActivityPub Won by Being Boring

At FediForum 2026, ActivityPub co-author Evan Prodromou explained why the protocol succeeded by staying deliberately ordinary and why the W3C's Q3 2026 revision needs to keep it that way.

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]]>https://citiverse.it/topic/67a1d77b-21b4-4764-9ca9-a881c1363a1c/activitypub-won-by-being-boringRSS for NodeSat, 22 Aug 2026 13:31:22 GMTFri, 14 Aug 2026 22:38:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to ActivityPub Won by Being Boring on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:19:21 GMT]]>Push based and pull when it matters more šŸ™‚

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2363https://citiverse.it/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2363Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:19:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ActivityPub Won by Being Boring on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:38:47 GMT]]>It "won" by being there. It's technically bad, and the way federation is done is a special kind of stupid when applied at scale. If it was pull-based instead of push-based without changing much else, that alone would have made many federation issue that ACTUALLY HAPPENED impossible, although that alone is not sufficient to make it pass as "good" still.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://programming.dev/comment/25450146https://citiverse.it/post/https://programming.dev/comment/25450146Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:38:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ActivityPub Won by Being Boring on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:22:22 GMT]]>Did it win?

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://programming.dev/comment/25449474https://citiverse.it/post/https://programming.dev/comment/25449474Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:22:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ActivityPub Won by Being Boring on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:53:50 GMT]]>Right on. You put into words what I haven't been able to easily explain.

I stumbled upon ActivityPub years ago and it appealed to me because it was built upon tried and true components of the web that I've been cutting my teeth on for years.

ATProto is novel for the sake of being novel. I don't feel it solves what it sets out to solve without introducing friction if you deviate from the happy path.

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