The good thing is that the DIY people don’t need to reinvent the wheel - you can just fork an existing project and shape it into what you’re interested in. There’s are already some bare bones implementations around that lend themselves well to building things on top of.
Of course not arguing that making it simple isn’t a good thing - but the reality is that interoperability between platforms like this is a complex challenge, and even though nothing is perfect ActivityPub is doing a pretty neat job making it a reality.
The growing options to just fork is an interesting and good point. Quite a few languages and stacks are now represented in some project somewhere.
That being said, we’re probably fast approaching the point where some form of generic modular software for the lower level stuff would provide a productivity boost to the ecosystem. My understanding is that there’s some work starting on that front for testing and maybe a sort of reference implementation.
The good thing is that the DIY people don’t need to reinvent the wheel - you can just fork an existing project and shape it into what you’re interested in. There’s are already some bare bones implementations around that lend themselves well to building things on top of.
Of course not arguing that making it simple isn’t a good thing - but the reality is that interoperability between platforms like this is a complex challenge, and even though nothing is perfect ActivityPub is doing a pretty neat job making it a reality.
The growing options to just fork is an interesting and good point. Quite a few languages and stacks are now represented in some project somewhere.
That being said, we’re probably fast approaching the point where some form of generic modular software for the lower level stuff would provide a productivity boost to the ecosystem. My understanding is that there’s some work starting on that front for testing and maybe a sort of reference implementation.