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julian@activitypub.space 4 days ago
Discord has both private and public channels. I won't bother considering their threaded discussion offerings, because they're absolutely horrendous.
ActivityPub is primarily public. You have scoped visibility that enables things like private messaging, but there is no implementation that allows for federated private group discussions.
There are proposals and a few implementations, but they all rely on everybody else to implement the same proposal, otherwise messages leak out, and that defeats the entire assumption of the private group.
It's not an unsolvable problem, merely one that hasn't been successfully solved yet.
As for whether AP is a good fit... It'll work. At the end of the day you're exchanging messages. Whether they're long form or chat messages makes little difference.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
I think the reason why Matrix doesn’t use AP is mostly to draw a clear line between public and private activity. Because if you use one protocol for both, the temptation is high to mix them and that leads to unclean implementations which leak messages. I think it should stay divided.