Disagree. One should not have to participate on this forum in order to be considered part of the in-group. I am posting here for two reasons:
- Occasionally questions get directed to me
- Only two (?) subforums are federating, so the majority of the conversation here is inaccessible from fedi.
Otherwise, I would just discuss from NodeBB directly.
Likewise, one should not have to participate or collaborate with the SWF to be part of the in-group.
Alas, that is not the reality.
There are many out in fedi who feel as though their voices are not heard because they don’t wish to or cannot participate on this forum, CG calls, task forces, etc. However they are collectively a group of amazingly smart people who also share the same end goal for ActivityPub: broader adoption and a tidy resolution to the vagueness and messiness of the protocol.