You know I'm a committed user of the fediverse,  perhaps this post will surprise you. Still, at some point the truth has to be told, before lying leads to a catastrophe. I think I've been present in the fediverse (sometimes hosting a pod of some software and sometimes not) since
  • Fisch@lemmy.ml
    141·
    3 years ago

    I would like to know what someone working with ActivityPub thinks of this (e.g. the Lemmy devs)

  • foonex@feddit.de
    9·
    3 years ago

    I don‘t understand why this is upvoted. It‘s pretty clear from the start that the author is not interested in constructive criticism. I don‘t have any stake in ActivityPub, and not really an opinion whether it is a good or a bad protocol. But this article is just an angry rant, and a complete waste of time.

  • chobeat@lemmy.ml
    9·
    3 years ago

    Be aware that the author of this blog is a well known Italian nazi-transhumanist that is famous for making shit up about himself, his expertise and the IT industry since the early '00. Don’t trust a single word that comes out of his mouth.

  • federico3@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 years ago

    I’m surprised the author did not mention NNTP, the protocol that ran the larges federated discussion system since 1986.

    ActivityPub reinvented NNTP with less efficiency and very poor documentation.

  • obsolete29@lemmy.ml
    32·
    3 years ago

    It may seem contradictory that all these ‘decentralised’ protocols are based on a very centralised structure such as the DNS, when one could use a DHT, like torrent is doing.

    DNS is centralized?

    • TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.ml
      8·
      3 years ago

      Yes, it’s controlled by ICANN which licenses out the ability to become a domain registrar. Making a new TLD is very expensive and the whole process is in the hands of like a half dozen corporations.