Convener: Çağan Mert İŞLEK (@islekcaganmert@sharkey.world)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle@mastodon.social)
• Jaz-Michael (@jaz@mastodon.iftas.org)
• Bob Wyman (@bobwyman@mastodon.social)

Tags / links to resources / technology discussed, related to this session:

https://github.com/islekcaganmert/TheProtocols/blob/main/Docs/3.1/README.md

Notes

A Federated Super App would be easy to understand, showing the value of simplicity from first sight to the website, letting people browse clients and servers easily.

• First, idea of super application has been described by the convener.
• Then, convener described why we need a federalized super application.
• Then got into questions.
• The reason we need a super application, which is an approach most of the world left behind decades ago, is applications are getting more complicated these days. People need an easy way to do all.
• Since we cannot force people to use this approach since some are preferring to use individual apps, a protocol can allow them to build individual ones over the same protocol, thus super apps can work with these individual apps.
• We can’t provide a single super app approach for all world since multiple cultures cannot benefit from a standard app. By letting people use networks and clients they prefer and have ActivityPub and TheProtocols working between networks, they can optimize their experience for their culture and connect with all world while simplifying their lives.
• An approach to building decentralized (web3) super app has been inspected by the attendees and the convener: https://subquery.medium.com/frames-the-blueprint-for-a-farcaster-superapp-f486783b12a9.
• It is important to note an anonymous attendee send this to chat: Gartner defines a Super App as “A superapp, super app or super-app is an application that provides end users (customers, partners or employees) with a set of core features plus access to independently created miniapps.” The miniapps are key.
• It has been said that fediverse is actually can handle being the super app due to wide range of use. However, clients are handling all as a microblogged post.
• Jaz-Michael said: I have to check 17 chat apps daily. Well, maybe 6. But too many. And that’s just for IM signals. Then email. Then Mastodon, BSky and LinkedIn. This is before I do any “real” work. General purpose computing without standards means I have to run around the world and check in with people who want to contact me on Slack, Signal, Google Chatr… I’m old and crotchety and I don’t want to do this anymore.
• Bob Wyman mentioned schema.org after example of a search engine built on TheProtocols used as an example by the convener.