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When I started digging into the specs for ActivityPub, it uses something called JSON-LD. Despite its name, it is essentially RDF encoded in JSON. Wouldn’t that
by hosh 4y ago
When I started digging into the specs for ActivityPub, it uses something called JSON-LD. Despite its name, it is essentially RDF encoded in JSON.
Wouldn’t that make ActivityPub a successor technology for RSS?
EDIT: maybe not — https://macwright.com/2022/12/09/activitypub.html https://macwright.com/2022/12/09/activitypub.html
- maxbond 4y ago(Copy & paste the link, can't confirm on my phone but I'm guessing they redirect HN referers to Google)
- nightpool 4y agoActivityPub was explicitly designed as a successor to OStatus, which was built on Atom and Pubsubhubbub (now websub), which was a successor technology to RSS (AP also integrated lots of fundamental design concepts from pump.io, which was an intermediate step between OStatus and AP). The RDF vocabulary it uses still has roots in the same RDF vocabulary used for OStatus (ActivityStreams 1).
- hosh 4y agoThough it looks like ActivityPub is push, and RSS is pull. But one should be able to construct transformers between the formats of ActivityPub and RSS/Atom.