Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:24AM
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> I like the W3C WebSub standard (formerly known as PubSubHubbub) which uses RSS/Atom underneath to syndicate content.
While you can use Atom/RSS with WebSub, WebSub doesn't expressly use any particular syndication format (it can distribute any content directly, not just Atom/RSS feeds) and hasn't, IIRC, since one of the PubsubHubbub drafts (I think 0.3, but maybe 0.4.)
While you can use Atom/RSS with WebSub, WebSub doesn't expressly use any particular syndication format (it can distribute any content directly, not just Atom/RSS feeds) and hasn't, IIRC, since one of the PubsubHubbub drafts (I think 0.3, but maybe 0.4.)