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