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@mcc yeah but that's not really a compelling argument for the *protocol*

@cwebber@social.coop replied · 2 months ago

@mcc But really, is there anything that's "new" to PDS'es that isn't basically a blog + RSS/atom feed? Signed posts seems like the main one?

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@fleeky@prsm.space replied · 2 months ago

@cwebber @mcc social media is basically poorly implemented blogs but with the notion that we should contain all those crappy blog posts on single servers..

mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social replied · 2 months ago

@cwebber the important thing is not that it's new it's that they built it

mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social replied · 2 months ago

@cwebber also the thing I see the PDS as providing at root is "a standard API for requesting data objects by key". a blog isn't that, you can address it by key (URL) but it returns formatted HTML not a data representation. RSS isn't that either, RSS is a linear recency-biased stream, and anyway we don't want RSS we want ActivityPub. You could expose the PDS xrpcs from Wordpress with a plugin the same way you can add ActivityPub to WordPress with a plugin.

mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social replied · 2 months ago

@cwebber But also, WordPress is a horrible, security-vulnerability-infested nightmare to maintain, and the BlueSky PDS is easy and resource-cheap to maintain, so I'd rather have (and eventually, will write) PDS with a wordpress-like frontend than WordPress with a PDS-like frontend