Some background information on ActivityPub in Pleroma:
Why ActivityPub is the future
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Re: Why ActivityPub is the future
#12But how will they deal with the GDPR? https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7280
From the thread:
>I don't expect any major changes are needed for compliance, which is why it's been pretty low priority. it's just a matter of getting a document together that better informs admins.
Mastodon has all the features needed for compliance, and does not collect or store any data that's not for its primary purpose.
Re: Why ActivityPub is the future
#13>If Twitter shuts down, you’ll lose your followers. If Facebook shuts down, you’ll lose your friends. For some platforms, it’s not a question of “if”, but “when”. Wouldn't this happen as well if the instance my account was created in shuts down?
Yes, though:
1. You can readily extract your information.
2. And re-import it elsewhere.
3. You can run your own instance.
(I've had a couple instances die and / or fade on me, which is why I maintain a few presences.)
Re: Why ActivityPub is the future
#14>If Twitter shuts down, you’ll lose your followers. If Facebook shuts down, you’ll lose your friends. For some platforms, it’s not a question of “if”, but “when”. Wouldn't this happen as well if the instance my account was created in shuts down?
Then your account is gone, but your friends on other servers are still where they were. With backup/import tools you can reconnect with them from a new account easily.
Re: Why ActivityPub is the future
#15ActivityPub is built by the W3C and therefore relies on Web related technologies (lost of HTTP and JSON exchanged) :)
Does this scale properly and how does it compare to existing solutions like XMPP Pubsub (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html) that is basically built to deliver content, in real-time (trough TCP sockets) and can handle thousands (millions?) of delivered packets per seconds?
I'm building a federated social platform that is fully relying on XMPP (Movim https://movim.eu) and I'm wondering about the limits and different usages of this fresh new protocol.
Re: Why ActivityPub is the future
#16>If Twitter shuts down, you’ll lose your followers. If Facebook shuts down, you’ll lose your friends. For some platforms, it’s not a question of “if”, but “when”. Wouldn't this happen as well if the instance my account was created in shuts down?
It would and it has. In Mastodon-speak, this is called an "extinction event", and I have seen a few of those. Mastodon, however, has already implemented take-out feature where you can download all of your data at any time, including your friend list. It's not perfect, because although you can keep your followee list, your followers don't have an automatic way of knowing where your new presence may have moved to. Also…
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Re: Why ActivityPub is the future
#17But how will they deal with the GDPR? https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7280
GDPR compliance is handled on a per-instance basis. a lot of fediverse developers are EU residents, so i'm sure there they'll do what they can to make it easy for admins to become compliant.
personally, i don't care about GDPR since i'm not under EU jurisdiction. even so, none of my servers store logs and i don't require an email address to register.
Re: Why ActivityPub is the future
#18The real value of federation, and the value of a standard like ActivityPub, didn't fully click for me until I realized I could follow Blender's PeerTube experiment from my Mastodon account. If enough sites start supporting it, you could get many of the benefits of RSS with the few benefits of massive silos like Twitter and Facebook.
How do you subscribe from mastodon? I see the video.blender.org is their instance right?
Re: Why ActivityPub is the future
#19>If Twitter shuts down, you’ll lose your followers. If Facebook shuts down, you’ll lose your friends. For some platforms, it’s not a question of “if”, but “when”. Wouldn't this happen as well if the instance my account was created in shuts down?
Then your account is gone, but your friends on other servers are still where they were. With backup/import tools you can reconnect with them from a new account easily.
What if a significant portion of your friends were on the same server? Wouldn't you not have an easy connection to them?
Re: Why ActivityPub is the future
#20But how will they deal with the GDPR? https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7280
From the thread: >I don't expect any major changes are needed for compliance, which is why it's been pretty low priority. it's just a matter of getting a document together that better informs admins. Mastodon has all the features needed for compliance, and does not collect or store any data that's not for its primary purpose.
Does that mean that in ActivityPub, I can't share messages with a restricted group of people?