"ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora" (overengineer.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by readwritexecute@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] sciawp@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

This was a good read and it’s something I’ve wondered about. The fediverse is sorta built on this promise that everyone will be able to interact across any implementation of ActivityPub.

But that’s not really true. The different types of social media have wildly different implementations, where we have to rely on developers communicating and cooperating with other implementations for everything to work even a little bit

[-] kenbw2@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Yea probably similar to how Lemmy and Kbin are theoretically compatible. ActivityPub doesn't guarantee that, it's only because they happen to use ActivityPub in the same way. If one of them changes their implementation, compatibility breaks.

I do often wonder how much it matters that all these platforms use ActivityPub

[-] ChoppyPorkupine@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

As a kinda layman, I am still flipping between kbin and lemmy(.world) alot, kbin also because it has no released mobile app (yet), and I just read a post complaining that kbin is missing a lot of content from lemmy, so there is definitely still "federation issues" there

[-] CMLVI@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

From what I understand, stuff from lemmy won't pop up in the All feed until someone subscribes to that sub from lemmy. It won't just pull every post from lemmy on its own, it has to be requested. That isn't a federation an issue, but an interest issue.