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State of Real-Time feeds : less polling
- olefoo 17y agoOne thing that seems to be missing in the discussion of real-time feeds and other such technologies is any analysis of concentration of power associated with using hubs and superdistribution points. Any centralized distribution point is vulnerable to malicious filtering and political pressure. Real-time updates are a very good idea, but we haven't yet reached the point where anyone can run a PUbSubHubbub hub, without some fairly capable technical assistance.
- julien 17y agoWell, technically, nothing prevents every publisher from running their own hub (we host some at Superfeedr). Also, we even encourage publishers and subscribers to both publish to several hubs and subscribe to several hubs as well, so that they can avoid any bottleneck or reliance to a single hub. The only 'burden' on their side is to deal with de-duplication, but that's quite easy.