ActivityPub Is To The IndieWeb As A.I. Is To Silicon Valley?

ActivityPub Is To The IndieWeb As A.I. Is To Silicon Valley? by Bix Frankonis.

To wit: if someone, say, on Mastodon replies to a blog post they see there, they have absolutely no idea that their reply also is going to be republished in the comments section of that blog post on the actual blog. None.

is ActivityPub a thing that the IndieWeb community just seems reflexively to think should be implemented everywhere, without necessarily thinking through the implications in advance, in much the same way as Silicon Valley thinks about A.I.?

As I’ve only just recently written here, blog comments are not social media, and I think such things should remain separate. They’ve different contexts with differing expectations and cultures, and I do not want to collapse them into one stream.