viswanathdurbha
viswanathdurbha on Hacker News
Re:Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds
on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:02AM (#18014882)
I like the W3C WebSub standard (formerly known as PubSubHubbub) which uses RSS/Atom underneath to syndicate content. The only catch is that it requires a publicly visible URL for callback. This is great for services like Feedly but may not work for individual subscribers who just want to use a client application and not run a server with public facing URL. But maybe, this is better than running a Mastodon server because we can still have the benefits of a simple Atom format and protocol.