Had the same thought a few days ago when I discovered Podcast worked with RSS and that you could get Podcast and News technically in one place
Comment on [deleted]
davehtaylor@beehaw.org 2 years ago
Am I misunderstanding, or is ActivityPub just reinventing RSS?
Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 2 years ago
Activity Pub is much more flexible, the tradeoff being that it’s more complex. ActivityPub is basically a flexible CRUD API specifically designed for social networking, with support for federation.
You could fulfill the purpose of RSS with ActivityPub. But, it doesn’t supercede RSS/atom, because the simplicity is valuable for the cases those protocols handle.