One of the most annoying aspects of the ongoing corporate capture of our network is that protocol-related discussions increasingly happen on Github instead of Fediverse (or friendly platforms like SocialHub and Codeberg).
Today's example: https://github.com/swicg/groups
Why use Github to talk about federated groups when we have federated groups right here in Fediverse? That makes no sense. But some self-appointed "leads" decided to create a repo anyway.
Similar Github repos ("task forces") also exist for other protocol features. I don't see any reason to legitimize this by participating and hope that other developers will do the same.
@silverpill Another case of people who don't know the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. Or, at most, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube and maybe Threads.
Since none of these have groups, these people firmly believe that the Fediverse itself doesn't have any.
I have a GitHub account for bug-reporting purposes. Shall I barge in and tell them?
# FediMeta # FediverseMeta # CWFediMeta # CWFediverseMeta # FediGroups # FediverseGroups