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The network effect for #ActivityPub is gaining some serious momentum right now. As more services adopt the protocol, more people, more communities and more content are added to the network making it increasingly more valuable for everyone. This will only accelerate in the coming months as Threads, Wordpress, Tumblr, Flipboard and others federate.

We're still in early innings but there's no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The open social Web / the #Fediverse is going to be huge.

@mike Question: What is the difference/innovation of Activity Pub over RSS for a blog/CMS like Wordpress?

@kajkandler @mike some top differences:

1. Two-way
2. Private posts
3. Extensible rich content (likes, replies, media)
4. Push, not poll
5. JSON instead of XML

@kajkandler @mike you can get a lot of this out of RSS, using RSSCloud for push, Pingback or something similar for responses. The only way I know to do private distribution with RSS is with secret feed URLs. For extensible content, just need to define the RSS extension elements. I think there was some work with Activity Streams and RSS in the first versions. @davew probably could sketch out a good architecture for it.

Dave Winer ☕

@evan @kajkandler @mike

I replied here where I had unlimited length and markdown support.

social.masto.land/@dave/111593

masto.landDave Winer's linkblog in Masto (@dave@social.masto.land)@evan@cosocial.ca Thanks for your comment, I'm responding from a different account because the editor is better here. ;-) I’d just like to see RSS stand alongside ActivityPub, so we can build systems according to the capabilities of each. I think Mastodon by having native support for RSS 2.0 did the right thing. Very important. We have RSS 2.0 support in Bluesky thanks to John Spurlock’s work. I worked with him on it and it represents how far I’d go now considering it’s 2023 and we’re in the process of building the open social network we could have built years ago and didn’t because social media lived inside corporate silos. An example… https://rss.firesky.tv/?filter=from:scripting.com I’ve asked Bluesky to build this into the platform, and I’d like Mastodon to add the new features to their implementation. This could be done in a few weeks and we’d have significant interop now. A basis for a lot of new building, in early 2024, on our timetable, rather than Facebook's. I don't like how much attention they're getting, how the open community is looking to them to ratify the open system. This feels wrong. *I would totally expect work to continue around ActivityPub. These are different things, on a different track.* Independent developers would be empowered to create new open systems in a way we’ve never been able to before. PS: This was written quickly on my iPad in front of the tv on a Saturday night so please forgive any typos and repetition, and I probably left one or two things out too. 😀