@cwebber you out of the epic fedi threads yet? Your opinion would help here.
@harce If ActivityPub is trademarked and is being enforced against people, that trademark could easily be invalidated. I was in the meeting when we came up with the name "ActivityPub" at the W3C. It was an evolution of "ActivityPump", since it was the Pump API + ActivityStreams 2.0, and we decided to align it more with MicroPub by @aaronpk, especially because at the time we thought the two specs might converge. It was @rhiaro who suggested the rename.
@cwebber Thank you very much for the input!
I dont think anyone is enforcing it, its most likely Automattic being overly corporate and considering everything a brand name, but it blocked @blog from delivering a very anticipated functionality to the wordpress/fediverse ecosystem.
And I had no idea @Rharo was behind both this spec and the name, I dined with a fedi-celebrity! :D