Every couple of months I get this impulse and desire to add ActivityPub functionality to at least this microblog but every time I start researching on the appropriate procedures I just get a headache because of how complicated it gets to do it on a “serverless” static website. I wish someone finds a way to make this more accesible. I love some of the sites I’ve seen that have it enabled and the promise of updating the site with an app like Indigenous sounds really attractive. For now I have the notion that a lot of ActivityPub functionalities are hostile to sites not running on a proper server. Change my mind.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the internet. I’ve spent most of my life in it but sometimes, almost always lately, I wish we would come back to the pre social networks era. These services are so frictionless that it makes most people say stupid shit and fight without any pre cognition of their permanently on the record declarations. The requirement of deploying your own website was a good entry barrier and we still had a lot of dumb, fun, crazy sites. It just wasn’t a privilege accessible to most.

One thing I’ve noticed along the years of learning & witnessing the development of web technologies is that their own creators barely use the things they build for the public knowing the monetization incentives they build into their platforms. Where’s @Jack pro-activity on Twitter? Where’s Mark constant engagement on Facebook? Why does Andy Rubin just left Android to Google’s oversight. They all seem to end up abandoning their creations when they become ad tracking networks with addictive features because most of the engagement turns out to come from outrage, cry-tizism and that ends the party for everyone. I wish that in the next decade web technologies turn into services of value instead of low quality engagement systems.