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Anyone have an inside perspective on the motivation for making ActivityPub activities push-based? @evan @cwebber @tsyesika
@elplatt @evan@prodromou.pub @cwebber @tsyesika
At the time we started OStatus, and to some extent when AP started, there was still a big culture of polling feeds.
For example, feed readers would poll the same feeds hundreds of times per day, because they could never be sure when something would be posted.
The general consensus was that this was a big mistake and that push was the right way to do it.
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@elplatt @evan@prodromou.pub @cwebber @tsyesika
At the time we started OStatus, and to some extent when AP started, there was still a big culture of polling feeds.
For example, feed readers would poll the same feeds hundreds of times per day, because they could never be sure when something would be posted.
The general consensus was that this was a big mistake and that push was the right way to do it.