Re: "Evolving ActivityPub to reduce infrastructure costs"

From experience running a well connected AP server, you could make the AP messages 10x larger and the bandwidth overhead would still be negligible.

The dominant factor is, and always has been, images, video and just general media.

- Erin


On 16 March 2023 03:13:31 CET, Benjamin Goering <ben@bengo.co> wrote:
>> I just think that if there is an impression “out there” by some people that ActivityPub needs to be evolved "to reduce infrastructure costs” then this group here should be aware of that.
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>It’s hard to tell for sure whether there is an impression out there like this from this thread because the only evidence you presented was that you heard someone say it.
>It would indeed be helpful if you invite your acquaintance to share some first-hand report to the list.
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>> On Mar 15, 2023, at 15:55, Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I just think that if there is an impression “out there” by some people that ActivityPub needs to be evolved "to reduce infrastructure costs” then this group here should be aware of that.
>