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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by nicoburns on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:01PM (#18016354)
For me, a key negative witb ActivityPub is the complexity. The RSS/Atom spec is pretty simple, and it fairly easy to see how it could be extended to allow for similar functionality. What are the disadvantages to an RSS based system?
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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by nine_k on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:39PM (#18017421)
RSS is poorly specified, and cannot handle any feedback.

Atom is well-specified, and has provisions for feedback. But what user agents / popular libraries / whatever else actually uses the feedback (commenting) features? Which servers that serve Atom feeds support that, too, and how well?

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