Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s*
by zaphar on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:21PM
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Yep, And I'm sure there are some instances that do exactly that. But in a distributed protocol you only get the benefit if both sides of a given interaction support the optimization. For something in the spec that is optional you can't rely on it and you aren't forced to implement it so it's not irrational to just ignore it. Which typically means you only get occasional marginal benefit.
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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s*
by sleepybrett on Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:57PM
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i mean it depends. The vast majority of fedi traffic is mastodon. Add it to mastodon it makes an impression and a real difference. At first mastodon to mastodon comms, but others will take notice, it will find it's way into libraries then it's smooth sailing.
Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s*
by account42 on Friday May 12, 2023 @05:25AM
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> Which typically means you only get occasional marginal benefit.
Which is why most browser-server communitcation is still limited by HTTP/1.0.
Except it isn't. That's not how this works out when there are benefits to all participants to implement these optimizations.