Hmm.

Um, I've only got some limited data, but as far as I can tell, about 60% of the sites that are set up on the Fediverse don't continue, right? And I guess one thing I'm worried about is that, you know, you tried to make a change, and it didn't work out i- in the way that you wanted it to.

Are you feeling dispirited or, um, discouraged or...?

And, like, I can describe myself as a person who has given up on it, but every time someone says that that feeling might exist again somewhere, I can't help but look for it, you know?

I think that maybe the one thing I'd, I'd say is, like, there's nothing wrong with, like, keep looking for that, right? I don't think you have to give up on that, that hope and, and desire just because you tried one thing and it didn't work out, right? I wanna ask, are you on Blue Sky or Threads or one of the other Fediverse, um, connected big networks?

It's really true.

Yeah.

Yeah, and people really love working with them.

You get other kinds of groups, so like Reddit, Reddit sub- subreddits, and the idea is to have that kind of community process that crosses different social platforms, so people from Mastodon, from Threads, from Flipboard, from WordPress can all be in the same group, right, and still participating together, which is a really cool, interesting part, right? Like, your, um, choice of platform doesn't necessarily dictate which groups that you can be part of.

And, uh, so that, that work has, um, started in December of last year, and we're starting to spec that out.

Um, the ActivityPub spec actually included some group information in it, so, but there haven't been a lot of im-implementations, so getting to better definition and more implementations is kind of the big step there.

... strikes me as maybe one of the hardest parts of sort of evangelizing this whole space.

You know, I mean, when we talk about, like, business models for social content, right? Um, I think we have some pretty decent ones that have, you know, been proven through the test of time, right? Ad-supported, um, and algorithmic feeds is, like, a great example that pretty much, whatever, half of tech runs off of, right? It depending on, um, ad-supported feeds.