Notices by helge (helgek@mas.to)

@darnell @volkris @nickapos @jan

Putting a focus here on #ActivityPub scaling to big instances is misleading. The number of connections involved scales with

1.) the number of posts (duh! if people post twice as much, you should expect twice as much traffic).

2.) The number of instances you have followers on. Each post gets transmitted to the sharedInbox the poster has followers on.

The only obvious thing missing in ActivityPub to reduce the amount of requests is batching.

@darnell @volkris @gimulnautti @jan @berkes@bitcoinhackers.org @nickapos @Sujiyan

This number should be widely known. Given these servers have together about 40k monthly active users, we get a little over 10$ per user per year.

#wtf so I'm still trying to wrap my head around all this #ActivityPub stuff and that #webfinger thing.

So if I open https://mas.to/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:helgek@mas.to the third link points to http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe (don't click) ... when I open it, they try to sell me a GALAXY138.

That seems wrong. Is this a case of somebody forgot to pay the bills?

@dwarf

I think it basically boils down to setting a different subject in the #webfinger reply, e.g.

https://mas.to/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:helgek@mas.to

if I moved to borg@social the subject would be
"acct:helge@borg.social".

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/webfinger/ links to the two relevant RFCs.