Is there really a reason, for example, for there to be the distinction of “magazine” and “community”? When you’re federating, the same features should be called the same, if close enough. That way everyone can talk with everyone about stuff and we all immediately understand each other.
Would also alleviate confusion for any new adopters.
^I’m pretty sure this is going to be impossible though, since each sides egos will likely get in the way :D^
I think there’s a case to be made that some common nomenclature should be applied to activitypub implementations. For the same reason everyone can agree that an email has a “CC” line. Even though nobody knows what “carbon copying” is anymore. It’s just a standard term so everyone is speaking the same language.
But there’s no standard when platforms on activitypub are so vastly different
peertube are is the equivalent of or youtube
lemmy is almost like reddit
Mastodon is twitter-like
Kbin is a mix between twitter and reddit
friendica is facebook
etc.
I think is ok for every platform being different, left the autors express however they want. Maybe if you are a boomer who never touched a computer or a smarthphone ever these things may be confusing, but for digital natives? really? Can’t you catch this stuff on the fly? It must be true what they say, the younger the dumber, to the point kids today don’t know the difference between a file and a folder
It already exists. The terminology is coherent, but unintuitive - any interaction is
Activity, any user, erm… magazine or group isActor, and any interaction isActivity.