What are key differences between ActivityPub and RSS+WebSub/pubsubhubbub? Its spec is long and verbose, I can’t tell at a glance what does it represent. I see that it supports likes and subscription lists, but what are other differences to RSS? Does it support comments? Is it just for twitter-like websites, or suitable for blogs and reddit-like websites too?
What I like in ActivityPub is that it’s RDF-based. It’s cool technology based on romantic ideas of expert systems, Prolog, rule-based AI, etc.
Besides mastodon and pleroma which are twitter clones using ActivityPub, there’s also peertube for videos, PixelFed for images and Plume for blogging. Those projects are all pretty new though, so it’s too early to say whether ActivityPub works well for this kind of stuff, but it looks promising imo
RSS+Webmention can be used to realize a very rudamentary version of federation (I’m currently developing a platform and testing simple federation using RSS+WM).
However, ActivityPub allows much more versatility and provides the endpoint with a low-overhead, machine-readable version of actions (AP is not like RSS in that stuff operates as feeds, rather, it’s actors doing actions on other actors or objects)
What are key differences between ActivityPub and RSS+WebSub/pubsubhubbub? Its spec is long and verbose, I can’t tell at a glance what does it represent. I see that it supports likes and subscription lists, but what are other differences to RSS? Does it support comments? Is it just for twitter-like websites, or suitable for blogs and reddit-like websites too?
What I like in ActivityPub is that it’s RDF-based. It’s cool technology based on romantic ideas of expert systems, Prolog, rule-based AI, etc.
Besides mastodon and pleroma which are twitter clones using ActivityPub, there’s also peertube for videos, PixelFed for images and Plume for blogging. Those projects are all pretty new though, so it’s too early to say whether ActivityPub works well for this kind of stuff, but it looks promising imo
RSS+Webmention can be used to realize a very rudamentary version of federation (I’m currently developing a platform and testing simple federation using RSS+WM).
However, ActivityPub allows much more versatility and provides the endpoint with a low-overhead, machine-readable version of actions (AP is not like RSS in that stuff operates as feeds, rather, it’s actors doing actions on other actors or objects)