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date: '2022-11-26T09:22:48'
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    - "Mastodon Timeline Fatigue While AP and Governance Energy \u2013 Interdependent\
      \ Thoughts"
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  text: "Yeah totally! In my opinion AP is a really nicely designed protocol that\
    \ does what it is designed to do very well. I've been playing with indieweb tech\
    \ (micropub/sub/webmentions etc)  to get a similar suite of behaviour but I guess\
    \ these technologies are even less widely supported than AP and of course there\
    \ are more moving parts to configure. Essentially, given that [you basically have\
    \ to be a web developer to use them](https://hyp.is/jrrh0G1rEe2SI2OlykvzjQ/mxb.dev/blog/the-indieweb-for-everyone/),\
    \ they're probably not gonna see mass adoption outside of webdev/programmer circles\
    \ I think (maybe \"mass adoption\" isn't what we want but it'd be nice to see\
    \ more niche bloggers with other interests getting involved I guess). \n\nTo be\
    \ honest I am just curious to see what an AP implementation would look like for\
    \ my current web setup and how it would compare in terms of a) code complexity\
    \ and b) performance/compute intensity - might make for a fun weekend project\
    \ and blog post!"
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 Yeah totally! In my opinion AP is a really nicely designed protocol that does what it is designed to do very well. I've been playing with indieweb tech (micropub/sub/webmentions etc)  to get a similar suite of behaviour but I guess these technologies are even less widely supported than AP and of course there are more moving parts to configure. Essentially, given that [you basically have to be a web developer to use them](https://hyp.is/jrrh0G1rEe2SI2OlykvzjQ/mxb.dev/blog/the-indieweb-for-everyone/), they're probably not gonna see mass adoption outside of webdev/programmer circles I think (maybe "mass adoption" isn't what we want but it'd be nice to see more niche bloggers with other interests getting involved I guess). 

To be honest I am just curious to see what an AP implementation would look like for my current web setup and how it would compare in terms of a) code complexity and b) performance/compute intensity - might make for a fun weekend project and blog post!