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   Potch (potch@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:01:09 JST Potch

   thinking (and reading) about it more, I think there’s room for a polling “feediverse” as a companion to the push-based fediverse. the problems of scale with RSS/polling feeds are problems the average normal person’s web server and push a ton of complexity onto individual publishers, who either have to join a managed instance to participate or sign up for a security/maintenance treadmill. would still build on the Activity Streams standards.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:01:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @potch I updated the ActivityPub ticket here:

     https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/422

     What you're describing is a compliant AP actor, although Mastodon doesn't support it well yet. I disagree with your premise that it's hard to implement the distribution, but I'm biased, since I co-authored the AP spec and am writing a book about the protocol for O'Reilly.

     I set up a static-only user at @evanp to test with. It was an interesting challenge!

     Happy to keep pursuing this in the SocialCG.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:21:51 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @potch as I mentioned in the ticket, I really like the idea of using this as the first step in an iterative approach for implementers.

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     Potch (potch@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:21:52 JST Potch

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @evanp I genuinely appreciate your willingness to look into the more passive/static use cases 💜

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     Potch (potch@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 11:21:53 JST Potch

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @evanp I do believe that smaller AP actors are possible and that the ergo for lots of users are well met by AP clients/servers in the market! I’m just also a big believer in static files as a hallmark of the long-lived web, and I think there’s room for both things