The Verge just interviewed @evan@cosocial.ca, Research Director at @swf@socialwebfoundation.org, and co-author of #ActivityPub.

[sabrew4k3@lazysoci.al]

It's interesting that Evan Prodromou mentions groups, but doesn't mention Lemmy, Friendica or even the Guppe group implementation.

[atomicpoet@piefed.social]

Evan’s job is to help build a standard implementation for groups for the W3C. He is also trying to pitch ActivityPub to organizations big and small.

[luiscarlosgonzalez@mastodon.social]

@atomicpoet @fediversenews It's not the megalovania I was waiting for. When I was testing Threads, I was very optimistic. "The Megalovania of the fediverse is arriving!" But then it fade out

[stevenray@sfba.social]

@atomicpoet @fediversenews this is enormous! Great stuff!

[2something@transfem.social]

@stevenray@sfba.social @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org @fediversenews@piefed.social I am guessing they're referring to Tumblr.

[stevenray@sfba.social]

@2something @atomicpoet @fediversenews thanks, I'd wondered that but didn't know the size of their user community. Looks like 300M active users each month. That'd definitely be good progress.

[2something@transfem.social]

@stevenray@sfba.social @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org @fediversenews@piefed.social Just gotta deal with their bigot CEO.

[stevenray@sfba.social]

@2something @atomicpoet @fediversenews ah, really? Yuck.

[cabbage@piefed.social]

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[cabbage@piefed.social]

I would honestly have been worried if the main people behind the protocol were busy trying to gatekeeep it.