silverpill
@silverpill@mitra.social
Developer of ActivityPub-based micro-blogging and content subscription platform Mitra. I help maintain the FEP repository and write my own FEPs too. Currently working on ActivityPub Next.
mitra.social
The biggest problem for peer to peer ActivityPub is the fact that ActivityPub is primarily a "pull" protocol. You need to fetch a remote actor before interacting with it. This is not feasible in the environment where nodes are intermittently online.
What if we used a special activity to request objects? I've described this idea in more detail in Asynchronous object retrieval:
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/aef6/fep-aef6.md
I think this mechanism, if combined with self-authenticating objects, should make ActivityPub compatible with store and forward protocols.
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