ActivityPub: The “Worse Is Better” Approach to Federated Social Networking
https://ariadne.space/2019/01/07/activitypub-the-worse-is-better-approach-to-federated-social-networking/
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This is the first article in a series that will be a fairly critical review of ActivityPub from a trust & safety perspective. Stay tuned for more.
In the modern day, myself and many other developers working on libre software have been exposed to a protocol design philosophy that emphasizes safety and correctness.