An ActivityPub Philosophy (2019)

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In the ActivityPub thread now on the frontpage [0] I see a lot of misunderstanding about the ActivityPub spec, such as it is bloated, it is missing so many things, you must use 'failed' JSON-LD notation.

So I reposted this article by the developer of GoFed (which recently reached 1.0.0 status [1]) that puts things into perspective and clarifies the intentional choices that led to the v1 of the specification.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23852036

[1] https://go-fed.org/

Just the fact that it uses all kinds of w3c tech is enough to make it bloated and overengineered imo.

What specifically are you referring to? If you don't want to use JSON-LD / Linked Data, then that is perfectly fine, as you can treat the message formats as plain JSON (what the majority of impls do in fact).

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