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Sorry, but the title says "Open distributed protocol for pub sub communication", the only buzzword missing is "federation", which is by the way not used in the
by antpls 8y ago
Sorry, but the title says "Open distributed protocol for pub sub communication", the only buzzword missing is "federation", which is by the way not used in the proposal.
The difference between a proposal like ActivityPub and something like WebSub is that ActivityPub solves an actual problem of social network monopoly.
The first products that come up with ActivityPub are free (Mastodon), while the products presented in this thread makes money from that protocol. In my opinion, it's sketchy.
- VoxPelli 8y agoThe initial protocol used by Mastodon, OStatus, used Pubsubhubbub (which is the same thing as WebSub) as it’s realtime delivery method. WebSub is a spec from the very same working group that published the ActivityPub spec and WebSub is actively used by eg. the IndieWeb movement that do indeed very much solve social network monopoly as everyone hosts their social profiles themselves there.