Re:ActivityPub could be the future
by PurpleRamen on Friday July 27, 2018 @12:24PM
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Yes, it's a nice option for some settings. But why is it neccessary in this context? Where there is a defined data-exchange format which would not have name collisions happen?
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XMPP as an extensible protocol (it's even in the name!) relies on XML namespaces to avoid collisions between extensions. Were it to use something like JSON, extensions would all have to be aware of each other so that no naming collisions or other awkward behaviour can occur.