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
>
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