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edit: I thought they were talking about ActivityPub since the issues look similar to ones people raise about it. Whoops.

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I am of two minds here:

1. Minimal specification worked for HTTP.

2. Most problems with HTTP come from it being minimally specified.

ActivityPub is exploding the way HTTP did. At worst, it's as imperfect as HTTP. At best, it's a way to get people used to federation for whatever comes next and improves on it.

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I think parent talk about nextcloud and their plugin documentation being pore and their slow sync client.

I agree with him, they put a lot of energy on non crucial features when a lot of their core features could be improved.

That sounds eerily similar to Plex and their focus these days.

He's talking about NextCloud, not ActivityPub, by the way.

My experience has not been that it "barely works", it works quite well for me.

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