Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?
rglullis@communick.news 2 months agoWebSub solved the efficiency issue, no?
Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?
rglullis@communick.news 2 months agoWebSub solved the efficiency issue, no?
Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 months ago
That's my impression. I haven't seen an argument yet as to what I'm describing not being fundamentally feasible.
It seems like most people here's opinion is essentially that ActivityPub is a better option mostly because it is one unified protocol vs having to develop around multiple protocols adding complexity. This seems to be why ActivityPub emerged out of OStatus, which was more similar to what I was describing.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Many things are fundamentally feasible. I see 2 things you argue for.
One is changing the caching strategy. I don’t think that’s wise in terms of load sharing, but certainly feasible on a small scale. In certain circumstances, it may be preferred.
The other thing is using older protocols and standards. The practical reason to do this would be to use existing tooling, libraries, code. I’m not seeing such opportunities. I’m not that familiar with these, but it seems like they would have to be extended anyway. So I don’t really see the point.