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The biggest advantage of ActivityPub, NNTP, etc. over any web forum is that you do not have to go to a bunch of different places in a browser and use a bunch of
by eschaton 3y ago
The biggest advantage of ActivityPub, NNTP, etc. over any web forum is that you do not have to go to a bunch of different places in a browser and use a bunch of different UIs under a bunch of different identities for something that is fundamentally not all that different from email.
Other than modern encryption, NNTP is perfectly usable on hardware that’s multiple decades old: Basically any 32-bit system with memory in the single-digit megabytes can run a newsreader, even a graphical one. I suspect the same is true for ActivityPub. And while that can be true for web forums, it almost never is, and mostly for aesthetic reasons.