Spritely website launches, plus ActivityPub conference video about it

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Hello! Tweaks are still happening but at last I feel like this is in a
good enough place to share:

https://spritelyproject.org/

Scroll down and you'll see descriptions of the various subprojects.
You'll see a lot of ocap lore unearthed in the roadmap. ;)

You'll also see linked on that page a talk I gave for ActivityPub
Conference 2020:

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/18aa2f92-36cc-4424-9a4f-6f2de946fbd2

This is probably the best overview of the project I've given so far. It
isn't perfect (far from it), with the following issues to be fixed in a
pending corrected video:

- Most importantly, I accidentally called Lucasfilm's Habitat
decentralized/distributed... twice! (EC is also described as such
but that's more correct). Yeah I know. I don't think it affects the
main topics too much but I'll fix it soonish.
- Some sections could be shortened
- Too many "ums"

But anyway, it's still reasonably good I think. For a long time I've
been working on Spritely and not really aiming to talk about it much
publicly or try to do much in terms of community building or
messaging/marketing. With the latest release of Goblins having (most
of, and still an early alpha version of) CapTP support, I think that's
finally changed. Hence the website now, etc etc.

BTW, there are quite a few good videos from ActivityPub conference this
year. But this one is *really* interesting (and incredibly well produced):

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01f38f966

I do believe in the freedom to filter so I support this kind of
filtering on that level, and it's clear that it's having good effects.
I still don't think that instance-level focus makes sense if the ideal
world involves everyone running their own instances, and all the other
problems I raised of concern in OcapPub. But it's interesting to see
how effective the current decentralized community moderation tools are
being relative to centralized approaches, and that also raises strong
hopes for the viability of consensual governance structures... even if
we could do much better!

I also would highlight these two videos:

- https://conf.tube/videos/watch/c28fe948-1308-4669-97a7-3c0e08500116
(a sociological analysis of the fediverse)
- https://conf.tube/videos/watch/32351956-89d7-4887-b6b0-f1a32f91dc36
OAuth 2.1 and ActivityPub (partly linking this one for Alan Karp :))

Anyway. Hope you enjoy them. :)
- Chris

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

On the HN homepage today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24613124
And on lobste.rs yesterday: https://lobste.rs/s/whaf2t/spritely

Also notably this year at APConf, I recall a few talks mentioning
ocaps... I forget which other ones specifically, but at least this one:

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/952f9cef-3b97-45e4-a248-199772a23f62

Last year the general reaction from the audience seemed to be, "Huh?
Ocaps? Where is all this ocap conversation *coming* from? We've never
even heard of this before."

These days I'm seeing more and more people on my timeline of the
federated social web mentioning their desire for object capability
support on the fediverse. We're soaking slowly into the collective
zeitgeist. Now we need to get more of this stuff in users' hands so
they can experience it for themselves!