Obviously that means ActivityPub is better, then. ;)

Though, as in terms of the "MIT Approach" vs "New Jersey Style", I've thought about that before... I do think that ActivityPub (and even more so, other linked data approaches) are probably the "MIT Approach" of federation attempts... if "New Jersey Style" would to more accurately map in terms of philosophy, I'd say that this would be closer to the IndieWeb stack. OStatus doesn't really seem to fit into either camp; to me it feels like its current "success", even if "worse", has to do with entrenchment as first-mover advantage.

Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-04-06T19:21:33Z

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And if anything were to be the MIT Approach, it definitely would be the pure linked data direction... which is literally the MIT approach, being espoused from the offices of the W3C at MIT!

In many ways I think ActivityPub is a middle ground trying to meet web developers where they're at, without having to push them to think in terms of triples, etc.

Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-04-06T19:22:40Z

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I had been wondering what if any was the relationship between SOLID and ActivityPub was.

Diane Trout at 2017-04-06T20:33:51Z

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Yes, it's workse, and ActivityPub too. True P2P underneath would be better. But we'll get there.

clacke@libranet.de ❌ at 2017-04-06T21:20:51Z

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