[+] -22 points 2 months ago

No need to be an idiotic pedant. I said defrost, not front or rear, and posted an easy picture because I figured that anyone who had the capacity to read would understand what I was talking about. Clearly I was mistaken.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Looking at the specs, it's a promising concept, but its considerably less mature than ActivityPub. It's also struggling with some of the same challenges:

    What is Missing?

    Non-Public Data: mechanisms for personal and group data sharing are planned, and should support a wide variety of application functionality. These will be large additions to the protocol framework. We recommend against simply "bolting on" encryption or private content using the existing protocol primitives.

    Protocol Governance and Formal Standards Process: once the basic protocol framework has been shown to work between multiple interoperating organizations, the plan is to bring the protocol specifications to an existing standards body (like the IETF) for revision and independent review.

    The first point is one the Fediverse struggles with (like the fact DMs aren't private). The second is where ATProto falls behind ActivityPub - right now Bluesky is the only significant org running the protocol, and as such they're still establishing standards.

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    Theodosius I signs Edict of Thessalonica in 380 CE, making Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire.

    In 395, after winning two destructive civil wars, Theodosius I died. He left a collapsing field army, and the Empire divided between the warring ministers of his two incapable sons. Goths and other non-Romans became a force that could challenge either part of the Empire. Further barbarian groups crossed the Rhine and other frontiers. The armed forces of the Western Empire became few and ineffective, and despite brief recoveries under able leaders, central rule was never again effectively consolidated.

    Wikipedia - Fall of the Roman Empire

    So my question is this - there's only 15 years between the acceptance of Christianity as the state religion and the collapse of the state. What were the effects of forced conversion in the late western Roman empire, and did it accelerate or delay the fall of the empire?

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