Amazing blog post! Been reading the ActivityPub spec and found it rather lacking. It’s only when you add WebFinger and signed messages that things start to make sense.
And a followup question: wouldn’t it be more efficient for big instances to use WebSockets to federate? Making a HTTP request for every action your users take seems unnecessarily wasteful.
Yeah it’s definitely very busy in terms of the amount of requests that’s get made. I’m not handling a bunch of them that I don’t need but there’s shitloads all the time.
I think that would only work when the number of instances is small. Two solutions to this might be:
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