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       Post Az0ohIygIEK8p51vsW by jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
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 (DIR) Post #Az0erOTLigqPDbXy8u by jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
       2025-10-08T18:51:29Z
       
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       The goal is to have a specification you can read and grok in an afternoon – and then implement something usable in a week.After that we create a bridge from RSF to ActivityPub and we let a thousand implementations bloom…[fin]
       
 (DIR) Post #Az0erPTjyikeL6jnOK by silverpill@mitra.social
       2025-10-08T19:57:57.360286Z
       
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       @jackwilliambellAnd I think it should be based on RSS 1.0 or the Atom Syndication spec (except dump XML and use JSON or something)But ActivityPub is the evolution of Atom/RSS, with JSON instead of XML...Perhaps you actually want a &#39;Really Simple ActivityPub&#39;? It could be designed to be compatible with ActivityPub, so a bridge won&#39;t be necessary.I think this is doable. I think the flavor of ActivityPub we use in Fediverse is already very close to Really Simple ActivityPub, it just doesn&#39;t have a spec (yet).
       
 (DIR) Post #Az0lxqmM5Zz0QUSk4G by shalien@mastodon.projetretro.io
       2025-10-08T21:18:18Z
       
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       @silverpill @jackwilliambell ah the 19874736474904th time today we reinvent like warm water, the wheel and the chesse
       
 (DIR) Post #Az0ohHQc3PTi185D8a by jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
       2025-10-08T20:01:59Z
       
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       @silverpill&gt; &quot;But ActivityPub is the evolution of Atom/RSS, with JSON instead of XML...&quot;Not exactly. ActivityPub is based on ActivityStreams. And ActivityStreams are a variant of RDF using JSON-LD instead of RDF XML. So, at best ActivityPub is based on RSS 2.0. (Which itself is overly complex IMHO.)&gt; &quot;Perhaps you actually want a &#39;Really Simple ActivityPub&#39;?&quot;Sort of. I want something much simpler anyway. But I don&#39;t want to use JSON-LD, so no direct interop will be possible.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az0ohIygIEK8p51vsW by jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
       2025-10-08T20:10:06Z
       
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       @silverpillFollow this link and scroll down to my contribution:&gt; (fixed url) https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115335451897410462There I explain (a) I don&#39;t have a problem with subject/predicate/object triplet-based network graphs, but (b) lots of people have difficulty conceptualizing them.JSON-LD, like RDF XML, is incredibly flexible and you can do amazing things with it based on few simple rules. But, as I wrote in this ancient Slashdot post, RDF is hard PRECISELY because RDF is simple:&gt; https://slashdot.org/~Jack%20William%20Bell/journal/16717
       
 (DIR) Post #Az0ohJL0xCBjwLTlgm by jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
       2025-10-08T21:06:44Z
       
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       @silverpill While I&#39;m referring to that ancient Slashdot post, let me surface a comment offering a reason why Dave Winer didn&#39;t like RDF and my response. The point here? Whenever we have something like JSON-LD or RDF XML (or, for that matter, SOAP) we are dealing with what some people (and I among them) will call an over-engineered mess. In this conceptualization ActivityStreams are capable of supporting nearly ANY use case. But they are over-engineered for 80% of use cases.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az0ohJz4YGENwaDl7w by jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
       2025-10-08T21:12:32Z
       
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       @silverpill Also, FWIW? In the end Dave Winer was right about the &#39;Semantic Web&#39;. Not only did it *not* take the web by storm, it failed PRECISELY for the reasons Dave said it would fail.You can say a lot of things about Dave, I know I&#39;ve said most of them. But I&#39;ve come to fully internalize and accept his main orgainizing precept: &quot;Do the simplest thing that could possibly work.&quot;