Gregory's Server@atomicpoet @lacouvee What service that supports ActivityPub but not Mastodon can I follow right now from a Mastodon client? I don’t know if I’ve done this yet. I’m still new to it.
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 @atomicpoet I’m following @fediversenews already. That’s cool. That’s a good example of what ActivityPub can do. I think micro servers that just publish would be very useful, like public transit and severe weather updates. I could follow relevant zip codes. I’d like to run such services which consume public data and share on ActivityPub.  @brennansv That's right. Microblogging is just one application for ActivityPub. The potential is huge! The beautiful thing about this protocol is that most things that it's capable of doing hasn't been made yet 🙂  @brennansv @atomicpoet @fediversenews With regards to public transits, you can check out this project: https://social.ridetrans.it/@kona/109877326154945041    @brennansv @atomicpoet @lacouvee you can follow @pixelfed accounts (photo sharing) and comment photos from Mastodon @brennansv absolutely. If you're in Mastodon click on this hashtag #CatsOfPixelfed @brennansv you can use the search box to paste link to profiles or posts from any Fediverse systems. Try with this one https://pixelfed.social/p/donelias/513411230300918790 @brennansv @atomicpoet @lacouvee I've been running the ActivityPub plugin on my WP site for a couple of months, you can follow @ryan to see how it looks (unless you are a teacher or involved in the Edtech space you'll probably not want to follow for long, lol!) My only issue is that sometimes when I post on WP the load skyrockets on my blog. I have't looked into why that's happening yet. @goz I believe the spike in load is due to all the servers getting pushes and then pulling data from your server. There needs to be some kind of CDN or cache that ActivityPub can use to smooth that out. But that could be the flaw. How would that be funded? @atomicpoet @lacouvee @ryan @brennansv @atomicpoet @lacouvee @ryan That makes sense, but it seems like a huge load for only 33 followers. It's not enough to make me not want to use the plugin though. 😁 @goz It takes a hit from every server which has a follower. WP runs on PHP and MySQL which are not the most optimal. You could put a caching proxy in front of it to quickly handle all GET requests. There are some resources you can read to fine tune performance. There may be some features of ActivityPub your install is not using that will help. |
@brennansv @lacouvee A good example is @fediversenews, which is a Friendica group. It was tagged at the beginning of this thread.
Another example is blender_reels@video.blender.org, which is an account on a PeerTube server. You can follow that account and watch videos that it posts.