Re: [GNU/consensus] [SocialSwarm] Why secushare's new pubsub & multicast API could spell revolution

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 10 September 2013 19:45, Nick Jennings <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Carlo, nice to see this work being done, specifically a distributed pubsub implementation. Do you have a repo where this is being developed? Also is this just the beginning or is there something working already?

One question regarding ActivityStreams below:

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:41 PM, carlo von lynX <address@hidden> wrote:

At the same time as the implementation of this fundamental piece of the GNU Internet is taking place, we will soon present the equivalent of the ActivityStreams protocol, enabling developers to create user interfaces and further applications on top of an infrastructure that provides similar social functionality as the social services we are familiar with, but in a distributed and encrypted fashion.

I'm unclear why it makes sense to re-invent the ActivityStreams protocol? There is nothing in it's nature that defines infrastructure, so being distributed and/or encrypted is something that can build on-top of the existing protocol, also something I'm working closely with in Sockethub.

Activity streams is not a protocol

It's a data serialization.

The current version relies on a proprietary central registry of verbs which does not (currently) support any form of encryption as far as I know

 

I don't understand where the value is in re-inventing this protocol?

Cheers
Nick

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