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I suspect XMPP is superior to ActivityPub and the way to go. Bandwidth is only increasing with 5G and with binary XML [1] I think you'll (one day, in theory) be
by dnomad 8y ago
I suspect XMPP is superior to ActivityPub and the way to go. Bandwidth is only increasing with 5G and with binary XML [1] I think you'll (one day, in theory) be able to get large scale, efficient real-time message flows. XML is just more extensible than JSON soup. These architectures are also probably flawed for pushing for complete N-to-N connectivity. It makes far more sense to push for mobile data that can be liberated from any one server than to assume any given data will always be available and will always provide a given chunk of data. This allows aggregation and caching and copy-resilience which is what makes the web actually work.
[1] https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0322.html https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0322.html
- seanp2k2 8y agoXMPP was what I first thought of while reading https://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinmastodon.org/ . My thought before that was "Why will this time be different than that time that ~everyone thought XMPP federation would be the future?"