Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds

Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by floatboth on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @08:54AM (#18014822)

Forget RSS/atom, use microformats2 h-feed.

https://indieweb.org/sidefile-antipattern

And there is existing tech for the popular reply-like-repost UX for this, based on webmention.

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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by d2wa on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:08PM (#18017059)

There are less than 9000 websites that supply h-feed formatted data, and only four of the top 10 000 websites. https://publicwww.com/websites/%22h-feed%22/

h-feed haven’t been a massive success.

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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by d2wa on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:09PM (#18017066)

Are there any feed clients that support h-feed? I’m legitimately asking. I was looking for a h-feed capable client (like a traditional feed reader with h-feed support) only a few days ago and came up with none.

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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by floatboth on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @03:01PM (#18026793)

https://indieweb.org/reader

Usually things that integrate more into the whole indieweb ecosystem, but some are (plugins for) more traditional feed readers.

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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by Volt on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:54PM (#18021557)

This doesn't seem to work too well for sites that need JavaScript to render. Then again, I suppose those sites might not have RSS either.

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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by floatboth on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @02:58PM (#18026764)

Content sites, i.e. blogs/news type things, MUST NOT need JavaScript to render.

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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by Volt on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:20PM (#18029521)

I agree, but that's where we're headed.

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