On 10 September 2013 19:45, Nick Jennings <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Carlo, nice to see this work being done, specifically a distributed > pubsub implementation. Do you have a repo where this is being developed? > Also is this just the beginning or is there something working already? > > One question regarding ActivityStreams below: > > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:41 PM, carlo von lynX < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> At the same time as the implementation of this fundamental piece of the >> GNU Internet is taking place, we will soon present the equivalent of the >> ActivityStreams protocol, enabling developers to create user interfaces and >> further applications on top of an infrastructure that provides similar >> social functionality as the social services we are familiar with, but in a >> distributed and encrypted fashion. >> >> > I'm unclear why it makes sense to re-invent the ActivityStreams protocol? > There is nothing in it's nature that defines infrastructure, so being > distributed and/or encrypted is something that can build on-top of the > existing protocol, also something I'm working closely with in Sockethub. > > I don't understand where the value is in re-inventing this protocol? > Activity streams is itself a web 2.0 reinvention of existing tech and not a very scalable interoperable or extensible one At least 1.0 isnt. 2.0 looks more promising ... > > Cheers > Nick > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > SocialSwarm-DEV mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.foebud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/socialswarm-dev > >
