@silverpill@mitra.social I think given the addressing limitations of collections, this by-proxy method of determining who to send an as:Follow to makes sense as a stopgap measure until ActivityPub's next version...

@j12t@j12t.social ah, it was a small group, just myself @trwnh@mastodon.social, @dmitri@social.coop, and @tallted@mastodon.social for the latter half.

@scott@loves.tech I have an OpenID login! I remember being terribly confused by it, and how to use it, and I think to this day it's only use is to log me into StackExchange

@j12t@j12t.social what I loved most about this year's FOSDEM was the camaraderie shown by everybody. I told my wife, who isn't plugged into the open social web (yet!) that I was constantly networking, and while that is technically what you would call it, what it really was was a purely organic gathering of like minded individuals, who have never met in real life, who had instant rapport because of the shared values inherent to the fediverse. As the fediverse grows, we'll see this kind of phenomenon happen less and less (see "Eternal September"), but we're at the early stage of the social web where these kinds of things can happen, and when it does, it's amazing. "Networking" at conferences is usually shaking hands and exchanging business cards, and then walking away never to hear from them again.

@jiejie@mastodon.social good question! The answer ultimately lies in how you want to communicate with your audience. Each option is different and it's hard for you to know which software is the best fit. That's why even when I say NodeBB sits somewhere in between microblogs and blogs, NodeBB might not be the right solution, yeah? What kind of site do you want to build, how in depth do you want to go, etc.?

@eeeee I believe LemmyBB was a proof-of-concept, to show that Lemmy as it existed back then was able to be represented in the front-end as a tradtional forum. But also, nutomic (who may have made LemmyBB? not sure.) is a busy person who has a day job and doesn't work on lemmy full-time

@altcode@social.vivaldi.net from what I can tell and from the people I've spoken to, the backend migration is the meat and potatoes of it all, and so the front-end would hopefully remain unchanged. It's one of those huge migrations where if everybody does everything perfectly, nobody will have known anything had happened at all