Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?
Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 month agoWhy would it be purely ephemeral? The content isn't going anywhere, and an RSS reader can crawl a whole archive.
Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?
Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 month agoWhy would it be purely ephemeral? The content isn't going anywhere, and an RSS reader can crawl a whole archive.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s ephemeral because now you’re demanding that everyone stand up their own web-addressable servers that the rss readers can search, if they want their own content to be searchable. Which isn’t going to happen. So in practice, it’s going to be either federated, or ephemeral.
Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 month ago
Free and premium blog and website hosting services are abundant, for those who dont want to self host directly this is the easy option. There is no reason a host of this type couldn't adopt or be set up to have the protocols I'm discussing baked in to their CMS/templates as options.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Because with federated services people don’t have to host an activity, you can join a federated instance that someone else maintains.
The typical Twitter user balked at just selecting a mastodon instance when they signed up in the app… similar issues for reddit users looking to come to lemmy. If you think that they’re going to be willing to go and set up and manage their own server, even on a free hosting site, you’re wildly mistaken.
If you don’t think you need the normies on your social network anyways, I have no polite way to tell you that most people want to join social networks with their friends.