Comment on What about AT protocol?
gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 1 month agoSee here. Basically, creating a relay for the AT protocol is extremely costly and only possible for big tech companies with lots of investors.
Comment on What about AT protocol?
gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee 1 month agoSee here. Basically, creating a relay for the AT protocol is extremely costly and only possible for big tech companies with lots of investors.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Thank you!
TL;DR, the relay bit works as a completely connected network topology, and has the associated quadratic growth issues, which renders it hard to host.
Also nasty: Direct messages are just not federated.
Other things are or were at the time of writing janky, but nothing else is quite that egregious. The author is working on a separate project, and recommends this idea as a solution for portable identity on ActivityPub, and here’s what “object capability” means.