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2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My main concern with this is I don't know how well activity pub can scale, and we've already seen various interop problems between different types of platforms. And if email is any indication, once activitypub gets popular it will NEVER GO AWAY and all the developers will hate it.

[–] tiny_electron 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Here is an interesting thread about activitypub's scalability https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/110198847653604631

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah that's pretty much what I'm talking about, though I wish she was more specific

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why do you say email is hated?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You'd get a better response if you asked a developer who has actually worked with it. But most of it comes down to bad, outdated, nonstandardized tech

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Given ActivityPub is newer, I hope they've made it with less of the issues email has! Email as we know it is like, what, 40 years old at this point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

First inter-user messaging was 62 years ago, first email client was 51 years ago, first spam was 45 years ago, first attachments were 31 years ago.

I don't work with it directly, but it seems we've bolted on a lot of "fixes and functionality" onto email, but the underlying protocols haven't changed dramatically.

And now nearly 56.5% of all emails were spam last year. Though I don't think that counts intranet spam I get from my bosses all the time.