Dave Winer wrote recently about “embracing the creativity of others“. It sounds good, but I don’t think he is taking his own advice. Dave regularly posts about how ActivityPub and AT Protocol are too difficult, and the developers supporting those protocols should support RSS, or should implement inbound/outbound RSS. Sure, that works for RSS developers, but what’s in it for ActivityPub or AT Protocol (or for Mastodon or Bluesky or Threads or….)? Where is the win for them? It seems like Dave Winer is looking for someone to say that his work with WordPress (the WordLand editor) is great. Well, it is a nice editor, but so what if people are not rushing to take advan...
Dave Winer wrote recently about “embracing the creativity of others“. It sounds good, but I don’t think he is taking his own advice. Dave regularly posts about how ActivityPub and AT Protocol are too difficult, and the developers supporting those protocols should support RSS, or should implement inbound/outbound RSS. Sure, that works for RSS developers, but what’s in it for ActivityPub or AT Protocol (or for Mastodon or Bluesky or Threads or….)? Where is the win for them? It seems like Dave Winer is looking for someone to say that his work with WordPress (the WordLand editor) is great. Well, it is a nice editor, but so what if people are not rushing to take advantage of it? Keep working at it, and PLEASE show us all that stuff about FeedLand and WordLand integration, instead of just talking about it!