A vision isn't enough once you write code
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when you actually get to write code, you really need more than just a vision, or an or a conceptual framework, you need actual nuts and bolts details of the way the protocol functions.
Episode 73: Spinning Gold out of Yarn (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:13:27 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Cross-app comments jumped forward once John Spurlock and others got their hands dirty and published research. You can picture a protocol in the abstract, but writing code takes the nuts-and-bolts details. Real-world ActivityPub implementations like Mastodon and Pleroma don't all behave the same.