Post B35es5ooGpIX6diKLA by arcanicanis@were.social
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 (DIR) Post #B35dQcoftMG9NtzOVs by silverpill@mitra.social
       2026-02-07T21:03:53.511567Z
       
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       @lutindiscret @hongminhee I have no idea, it is literally useless. JSON-LD is a form of gatekeeping.
       
 (DIR) Post #B35es5ooGpIX6diKLA by arcanicanis@were.social
       2026-02-07T21:20:51.612346Z
       
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       My first ActivityPub project was very literally just wasting my time solely on trying to make a JSON-LD-first ActivityPub library to try to abstract away it from the library consumer (within reason), back around the time before ActivityPub had reached W3C Recommedation status.I would have saved myself some amount of months by just having not get snagged into that trap, and could have instead actually shipped a usable implementation back then.Everyone else that actually shipped an ActivityPub implementation in the beginning were the ones that treated it solely as static JSON.I'm not saying JSON-LD is hard, nor difficult to understand (and there are some niche projects where I do want to use it)---some of it's probably even an upgrade from similar things in the XML world, but it piles on more overhead that everything has to be expanded, checked against context, just to handle different representations, all while you'll still invariably have to interop with implementations that treat it as static JSON anyway.
       
 (DIR) Post #B35fkqR7A8arKHjqFc by silverpill@mitra.social
       2026-02-07T21:29:56.226088Z
       
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       @arcanicanis @hongminhee @lutindiscret The trap is real, I barely avoided it myself. I read SocialHub a lot when I was learning about ActivityPub and got an impression that JSON-LD is super important so it was on my to-do list for a long time. Fortunately, I got distracted by other tasks.
       
 (DIR) Post #B35gAStNK0lFpnAplo by silverpill@mitra.social
       2026-02-07T21:31:27.370700Z
       
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       @arcanicanis @hongminhee @lutindiscret Linked data is good for scientific applications, but this is not what we're building here.
       
 (DIR) Post #B35gF6sGbx00zks11k by arcanicanis@were.social
       2026-02-07T21:36:13.610344Z
       
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       I read SocialHub a lot when I was learning about ActivityPub and got an impression that JSON-LD is super important so it was on my to-do list for a long timeYea that's the trap of people following social consensus, when a lot of discussion being done is by people that have zero stake or personal investment. It's all just armchair critics that have made nothing. That's part of why I've lost my patience for participating in the SocialHub LARP, especially when they're filtering out the people who have actually made something.