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[Fediverse BackUp]
Also — we would need to consider Threads / Storms —
Where people reply to their own post to make a larger post made up of smaller posts.
(I.e., what I have been doing here 🙂 )
For an Activity File to be a "good" format for a BackUp, a single Activity File would need to contain all the posts in the Thread / Storm.
Also —
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#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #BackUp #BackUps #FediBackUp #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse
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I think one challenge, in practice, with using an Activity File as a BackUp Format is that — a lot of Fediverse software does NOT embed (non-text) media (such images, audio, video, etc) in the Activity File.
But, instead references them using URLs.
(And, by "URL" I mean "URI", "IRI", etc.)
Usually this is probably a good thing, but —
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If you wanted to BackUp a post on the Fediverse, and all you download was the Activity File (with URLs pointing to the non-text media), then — you lost all the (non-text) media (such as images, audio, video, etc) that were part of the post.
Which would be bad.
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Now, having said that, I don't think there is anything about ActivityPub / ActivityStreams that "prevents" Fediverse software from not embedding (non-text) media (such as images, audio, video, etc) into an Activity File —
For example, an "Image" Object can contain a ("mediaType" and a) "content" field (rather than an "href" field).
But —
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[Fediverse BackUp]
But — for an Activity File to be a "good" format for a BackUp, there would need to be a way to get the Fediverse software to embed the (non-text) media (such as images, audio, video, etc) into an Activity File.
Also —
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#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #BackUp #BackUps #FediBackUp #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse
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[Fediverse BackUp]
Also — we would need to consider Threads / Storms —
Where people reply to their own post to make a larger post made up of smaller posts.
(I.e., what I have been doing here 🙂 )
for an Activity File to be a "good" format for a BackUp, a single Activity File would need to contain all the posts in the Thread / Storm.
Also —
...
#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #BackUp #BackUps #FediBackUp #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse
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[Fediverse BackUp]
Also — we would need to consider Threads / Storms —
Where people reply to their own post to make a larger post made up of smaller posts.
(I.e., what I have been doing here 🙂 )
For an Activity File to be a "good" format for a BackUp, a single Activity File would need to contain all the posts in the Thread / Storm.
Also —
...
#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #BackUp #BackUps #FediBackUp #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse
