ActivityPub federation of Gitlab underway!
"I have finished preparing my design documents for this feature. See here for the reasoning behind adding ActivityPub to Gitlab and an overview of the implementation path, and here more specifically for this current issue, with more detailed specifications.
I now feel confident enough to get starting implementing this into Gitlab. I'm going to add the activities iteratively, there is quite some distance to cover up." -Kik
via https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21582#note_1469889541
@liaizon ActivityPub is the new RSS?
@jeffmcneill hopefully not
@liaizon @jeffmcneill huh why not though? Is there some context to this i'm missing
@natriumchloride @jeffmcneill oh just the context that there have been endless articles with titles like "rss is dead"
I would hope we can do a better job then rss but I guess the task is even more complex
@liaizon @jeffmcneill oh i get it now, thanks. & i agree
@liaizon
> there have been endless articles with titles like "rss is dead"
Reports of RSS' demise have been greatly exaggerated. As with XMPP, and many other open standards that still have communities actively using them, with a range of Free Code (and sometimes proprietary) implementations. Many websites still publish RSS feeds. Eg RSS can be used to follow Titter accounts via a Nitter instance, and similar stuff is possible in Invidious using RSS.
@Moon
> mozilla of course, ignoring their mission statement massively contributed to the death spiral by
... pretty much every decision their upper management have made for about a decade.