Re: Meta implementing ActivityPub as intended? Not so fast IMHO.

Quoting Melvin Carvalho (2023-05-22 23:58:04)
> Facebook has a very good standards compliant implementation of linked data
> and RDF with proper vocabularies etc.  It was impressive.

I noticed that you stated the above several times recently.  I disagree.

Meta has developed a service API, Graph API, which is *not* semantic.
Then as an extension they have developed data language OpenGraph and
query language GraphQL which *are* semantic, but while expressive enough
that they *can* do things equivalent to RDF and SPARQL, and therefore
*potentially* can be used to provide 5-star compliant linked data, they
are only cetain to comply with themselves, not to comply with RDF nor
"linked data" as RDF folks use that term.

(Not how I above shift to focus om 5-star where your focus was on
somthing data somehow linked, which then is deceptive to praise as being
"compliant".)

Why did Meta invent OpenGraph and GraphQL when SPARQL and RDF already
existed?  Most notable as I see it is that GraphQL at its core supports
tying an API key to each query, meaning that the owner of a data store
can gather granular knowledge about each and every single use of it: I
strongly suspect that OpenGraph is usable *only* directly connected to
Meta services as a means for Meta to milk most possible knowledge from
the use of prior knowledge.

I would love to be proven wrong on my suspicion.

Here's what some others have written related to this, that I could find
quickly:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50063202/what-is-the-difference-between-graphql-and-sparql

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16639799/is-there-a-difference-between-facebooks-open-graph-api-and-its-graph-api


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