Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 15 hours agoFor whatever reason I’m struggling to remember how to properly explain the difference between push/pull protocols, but AP only moves data at a users request.
This means that if I follow you on Mastodon, and you comment on a post by some other third party which I have no interaction with, it’s going to bring that comment to me and bring along any other related data. In this case, that means the post you commented on and all of the other comments and data related to that post.
This cycle works constantly, so I get content from the other side of the world because I (in reality, my instance, not me in particular) interacts with a chain of instances to keep data flowing
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Thanks for the explaination!
That definitely sounds like it could be a nice upgrade depending on well it could be filtered (I could see that spidering out pretty quickly if the things you follow interact a lot). Definitely something I’ll have to check out sometime, thanks again.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Well, you’re here on Lemmy using the ActivityPub protocol. How’s the experience been? Does the filtering fit your needs?
I realize you might be talking about the server side rather than for users, ie if you were gonna set up your own instance. In which case, what you’re referring to is called “federation/defederation.” My understanding is that you just have to go flip a switch on your backend to filter out a whole instance, a person, a community etc and nobody on your instance will see it anymore.