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I can't figure out what advantages ActivityPub has over email. It seems to just be a way of sending messages to one or more recipients. Email already does this.
by mike-cardwell 9y ago
I can't figure out what advantages ActivityPub has over email. It seems to just be a way of sending messages to one or more recipients. Email already does this. Couldn't you just stash that blob of JSON in an email body? That way, no new servers would need to be set up; everyone already has an email address.
- reitanqild 9y agoDo you want server-to-server communication to depend on yhe mercy of spam filters? Or client-server communication ?
- mike-cardwell 9y agoAre you talking about the spam filters that are required for email, or the spam filters that are required for the exact same reasons with ActivityPub? https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#security-spam https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#security-spam "Spam is a problem in any network, perhaps especially so in federated networks. While no specific mechanism for combating spam is provided in ActivityPub, it is recommended that servers filter incoming content both by local untrusted users and any remote users through some sort of spam filter."