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1. silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 02:35:49 JST silverpill

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   • LisPi

   @lispi314 ActivityPub is not strictly-instance centric. Only the present-day Fediverse is.

   Here's what the spec says about object IDs:

   >Publicly dereferencable URIs, such as HTTPS URIs, with their authority belonging to that of their originating server. (Publicly facing content SHOULD use HTTPS URIs).

   -- SHOULD use HTTPS URIs, but not MUST

   This means one could design a protocol where IDs are not location-based and it might still be technically called ActivityPub. Some Fediverse servers may even support this protocol with little effort.

   • LisPi (lispi314@mastodon.top)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 02:35:50 JST LisPi

     • Aral Balkan

     Reading some of @aral's articles, this one in particular is quite interesting to me as it brings back an issue I've ranted about a few times: https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/

     I've semi-frequently mentioned that admin piss fights are a problem because #ActivityPub is instance-centric, not #MessageCentric, and doesn't propagate messages via #GossipProtocols (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol).

     As it turns out, this is a second issue that gossip message spreading would greatly mitigate if not solve.