I suggest all of you check out the Versia Protocol, it is very interesting and I feel it has a lot of potential to become a standarized protocol.
It is ActivityPub/Fediverse-styled, in the sense that it operates under the idea of small pockets of users and informations that sync up on eachothers' data through simple communication
Some of the stuff I think it does better than ActivityPub:
- Enforces hard endpoints for data fetching and backfilling
- Enforces the ability for instances to change domains, as well as users to change handles
- Has a server-to-server communication protocol for error logging and handling protocol implementation issues
- Does not use JSON-LD, instead, opts in for a much simpler extension system that simply defines a set of values under an object
- Implementing it is a very streamlined and straightforward experience, where most of the features you want (such as emoji reactions, likes, replies, etc.) are already part of the core standards as optional extensions.
- Instead of having several ways to describe an object containing text and media, it simply has all of them under the same umbrella, with a couple of configurable options that serve mostly as tools for figuring out how to display an incoming "Note"
- Encryption and signing are enforced.
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