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Anyone can host an RSS feed with just a web server. Everything from a shared host to a VPS to a Raspberry Pi at Home. It takes a lot more resources and administ
by giantrobot 4y ago
Anyone can host an RSS feed with just a web server. Everything from a shared host to a VPS to a Raspberry Pi at Home. It takes a lot more resources and administration effort to run an ActivityPub server.
- zozbot234 4y agoActivityStreams can be hosted in the exact same way, hence the "pull" model. It's not the same as ActivityPub, although the latter builds on it.
- shadowfacts 4y agoThat's true of current implementations, but the spec is flexible enough to allow much simpler ones. You can have an outbox which is a collection of activities (that could even be statically generated) and software could poll the outbox just like RSS. Existing software requires a push-based model, which means handling follows, which means a database, but fundamentally there's nothing stopping ActivityPub from being pull-based.
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- amadeuspagel 4y agoOr even a static website that you can deploy on many free CDNs, such as cloudflare pages, vercel or netlify.