Writing some code is what makes a technology less scary
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I think it just takes it takes doing it. It takes writing some software, some activity pub based software first to see that it's really not as intimidating and bad as is, as it appears on the outside
Episode 172: Tantalizing Liquid (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:59:30 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Developers who were against ActivityPub became believers after actually writing ActivityPub software. It takes doing it to see it isn't as intimidating as it looks from the outside. ActivityPub has an image problem with developers.