At FediForum 2026, ActivityPub co-author Evan Prodromou explained why the protocol succeeded by staying deliberately ordinary and why the W3C's Q3 2026 revision needs to keep it that way.
Right on. You put into words what I haven’t been able to easily explain.
I stumbled upon ActivityPub years ago and it appealed to me because it was built upon tried and true components of the web that I’ve been cutting my teeth on for years.
ATProto is novel for the sake of being novel. I don’t feel it solves what it sets out to solve without introducing friction if you deviate from the happy path.
Right on. You put into words what I haven’t been able to easily explain.
I stumbled upon ActivityPub years ago and it appealed to me because it was built upon tried and true components of the web that I’ve been cutting my teeth on for years.
ATProto is novel for the sake of being novel. I don’t feel it solves what it sets out to solve without introducing friction if you deviate from the happy path.