ShittyKopper (shittykopper@blahaj.zone)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 04:42:39 JST

@feditips@mstdn.social @housepanther@masto.goblackcat.net Hopefully ActivityPub becomes a standard option on blogs the same way RSS did.ActivityPub is way too complex compared to RSS to be as ubiquitous. Anybody with a vaguely template engine shaped tool (hell, static site generators even) can create an RSS/Atom feed while ActivityPub effectively requires a backend server that's running near constantly / every X minutes (with permanent writable storage) for anything that's not a toy example for a quick blogpost.

Following an RSS feed is "just download this file every few hours and check if there's any new changes to it on your end". AP can't get that simple no matter how much you try (before it stops being widely compatible* AP, of course)

*: some AP projects may support outboxes, but none of the major ones like masto do afaik.