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An ActivityPub Philosophy (2019)

• rapnie 6y ago
  In the ActivityPub thread now on the frontpage [0] I see a lot of misunderstanding about the ActivityPub spec, such as it is bloated, it is missing so many things, you must use 'failed' JSON-LD notation. So I reposted this article by the developer of GoFed (which recently reached 1.0.0 status [1]) that puts things into perspective and clarifies the intentional choices that led to the v1 of the specification. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23852036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23852036 [1] https://go-fed.org/ https://go-fed.org/
  • dependenttypes 6y ago
    Just the fact that it uses all kinds of w3c tech is enough to make it bloated and overengineered imo.
    • rapnie 6y ago
      What specifically are you referring to? If you don't want to use JSON-LD / Linked Data, then that is perfectly fine, as you can treat the message formats as plain JSON (what the majority of impls do in fact).
• deleted 6y ago
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