I'm a lot more excited about ActivityPub than I am about AI atm. Both are cool, but very different energy.
What's most interesting to me about ActivityPub (at least right now) is less the specific technology, and more the people who it's bringing together.
ActivityPub, the idea, is a little campfire attracting a fascinating band of misfits to gather around it.
@johnonolan Mainstream AI is as MEGACORP as it gets. The fediverse is the best kind of counter-cultural scene, where real friendships are made.
@erlend Exactly. A lot of it feels like early web ~2005ish, and I love that
@johnonolan please just bury me in a web-of-2005 time capsule