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Substack Competitor Ghost Announces ActivityPub Integration
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this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2024
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Am I misunderstanding, or is ActivityPub just reinventing RSS?
Activity Pub is much more flexible, the tradeoff being that it's more complex. ActivityPub is basically a flexible CRUD API specifically designed for social networking, with support for federation.
You could fulfill the purpose of RSS with ActivityPub. But, it doesn't supercede RSS/atom, because the simplicity is valuable for the cases those protocols handle.
Had the same thought a few days ago when I discovered Podcast worked with RSS and that you could get Podcast and News technically in one place