Re: Remixing and Aggregating Task Force

How would ActivityPub/ActivityStreams aggregation be different from WebSub
(PubSubHubbub)? If different, other than using json rather than Atom or
RSS, why would it be different?

bob wyman

On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:

> We have a few projects in the Fediverse that are doing remixing and
> aggregating content and other activities from other Actors. Two good
> examples are Surf and Channel.org.
>
> I think this is an interesting enough pattern that we should open up a
> Task Force at the SocialCG to investigate standardizing some of these
> features. Important questions to ask are:
>
>    - How should an aggregated feed appear on the Fediverse? Is it just
>    another Actor that Announces activities and content that meet its
>    requirements? Or is there another structure?
>    - How do we handle ordering of feeds? Some feeds might not be reverse
>    chronologically ordered, but use some other algorithmic ordering.
>    - How can feeds be transparent about what the sources are? Actors,
>    search terms, hashtags, etc. What is coming into this feed? Can consumers
>    inspect the sources?
>    - Is the feed replicable elsewhere?
>
> Chairs, I'd like to propose an agenda item to discuss this possibility at
> the next CG meeting.
>
> Evan
>