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 smolder on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:18PM (#18017177)

P2P and self hosted stuff is what I want out of the internet, not SaaS style platforms. People's cable modems are almost always on so it's reasonable for them to have some almost-always-on services behind them, but circumstances make it difficult to build viable P2P tech:

- It's tough to monetize since true p2p software can just get pirated. You can't gatekeep to make sure people pay.

- The shortage of IPv4 with the help of buggy insecure operating systems made closed-to-the-outside NAT standard, making peers inaccessible without manual configuration or some helper technology.

- Data hungry government and corporations see independent communication channels as an obstacle to their goals. (See the recent story about five eyes pushing for backdoored crypto in Australia.)

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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by rocky1138 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:52PM (#18018552)

I've always felt that NAT ruined the internet. It made it basically improbable that someone might host something at home like the internet was made for.

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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by cdcfa78156ae5 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @05:02PM (#18019101)

If you care about this, the best thing to do is to start using IPv6, and insisting on IPv6 support in any interactions with service providers (SaaSS, hosting, data providers, etc.) that you have.

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Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom... by rocky1138 on Sunday September 23, 2018 @02:52PM (#18052521)

All my sites support IPv6. My router is horribly old and doesn't. But, once it kicks the bucket, I'll be sure to get an IPv6-compatible one.

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