I was very curious about this one since this is the next big thing @cwebber started after releasing the ActivityPub spec, and it’s smelling #ocap all over.
After a short introduction of ActivityPub, Chris mentions networks of consent, a topic he introduced here talking about OcapPub…
Spritely Project: The Super Exciting Future Of Fediverse is a “laboratory project for the social web”. The interesting approach is to provide examples of doing one thing at a time, so that other developers can see how it’s done (and maybe get inspired to do their own!).
- Goblins is the starting point, to develop distributed collaboration in untrusted environments, using Object Capabilities (#ocap). The key taker is that Goblins allows programmers to focus on the simple case and adapt to distributed environments very easily – lest the optimization, such as caching… Wow, that already a strong opening!
- Porta & Bella is providing opaque portable storage (remember #datashards?): this means only people with direct access to the files can reconstruct the stored files, wherever they’re distributed to (in chunks)
- Brux provides pet-name identity management.
- Mandy provides easy ActivityPub integration acting as a bridge for applications that do not support ActivityPub natively.
- Hyptis enables distributed finance for games, local money, etc.[1] Will that be compatible with GNU Taler?
- Oaken provides a way to safely run untrusted code. Not a sandbox per se, more like a wooden box!
- Fantasary runs virtual worlds! (“to encourage exploring and building things together”)
Despite what may appear from this impressive list, Spritely is not overly ambitious, is not trying to reinvent the wheel and is not starting from scratch: instead it builds on already explored and implemented areas and problems that remained obscure and tries to “make them less obscure”, and more importantly, in the context of ActivityPub. Looking forward to it!
Key takeaway: Spritely meets Chris’ long term ideas and itches with the will to make collaboration much easier.
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the sugar & neighbor example resonates with me in a way that completely ruins the plot. Let’s just say that I would never imagine having to pay, or someone pay for a bit of sugar, a lemon or some pepper to save the day: that’s the beauty of human relationships, you don’t want to put a market there, do you? I’ll give you the full story next time over a beer if you like
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