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Shouldn't all ActivityPub servers implement all objects and leave it to the client? (fedia.io)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Wouldn't that be better? Let me see if I can explain what I mean. Here on the fediverse each server is kind of restricted to what the user can post.

@[email protected] is for notes

@[email protected] for photos (wouldn't be surprised if it used a note too)

Lemmy only for article objects.

Peertube for videos.

You get the idea.

This way of developing the #fediverse where each server only receive one kind of the objects accepted by #ActivityPub makes it more fragmented it, right? A server should send and receive all kinds of objects and should be up to the client to how to processes those objects.

If an user wants an Instagram-like app just create an account on any service and use and app with that UI, of lager they wanted to see more kinds of objects they should just use another client that supports Note, Article, etc. with the same account on the same server.

Ideally all server should have a shared API.

This fixes #fragmentation, the need to have multiple accounts if you are into multiple kinds of objects/content.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The only problem that I see with this is that images and especially videos take up vastly more space than plain text.

And does ActivityPub include client APIs? I haven't looked at it, but my completely unfounded impression has been that it only handled server to server communication.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

That is a fair point, and I don't have the answer. Maybe use technics that @[email protected] uses like torrenting (or another way of decentralized storage), I guess you could use a cdn/object bucket?