I'm suggesting federation is not necessary, thats the whole point.
Use Atom or RSS for content identification / distribution.
Use Webmention for comments and cross-posting.
Use email or XMPP for direct messages.
Build a client that provides these functions and with these protocols and what is it missing that ActivityPub provides? That's my question.
Your answer, that it is one protocol, is fair enough.
rglullis@communick.news 8 hours ago
XMPP is just the transport. You can build a public social network on top of XMPP just fine.
Coopr8@kbin.earth 5 hours ago
Interesting, I have actually used Movim for xmpp chat before but not fully explored its publishing features. This is a good nudge to do so. I wonder how it handles "communities". I have been tracking XMPP recent development and threads are just now getting support, though they function more like tags in chat streams than like threads in a Lemmy sense in current implementations. It seems like the "Spaces" concept proposed in XEP-0503 would round this out, and I have discussed how Nicolo of Slidge plans to work on this woth the Movim dev team, it would make sense Spaces would much improve the blogging/forum functionality of Movim. I was asking about it for the potential of replacing Matrix/Discord with XMPP.