It's all about the infrastructure

A report from Ghost on ActivityPub integration, starting with a nice intro for newcomers: "HTML is a standard for displaying text and images on a computer. Email is a standard for sending and receiving messages privately. ActivityPub, then, is a standard for sending and receiving content publicly.", and followed by some musings on the difficulty of introducing and scaling up new standards-based technologies: "When you hear people talking excitedly about the Fediverse ... you're tuning into is the collective energy of a group of people coming into contact with an invention which, if it can overcome non-trivial barriers to adoption, has the potential to once again transform the way we interact with one another. But infrastructure takes time to develop and evolve before its value is obvious."