I’ve had this idea of the ActivityPub Protocol powering Mastodon, Threads, and others in The Fediverse, as a kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine.
“A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction -type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way.”
What kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine ?
The MouseTrap Boardgame from childhood.
I captioned the following images to get the idea out of my head.
Whereas Two-Way RSS remains Simple and Direct . . .
N.B. The AT Protocol powering BlueSky
To Wit
Good morning
Likely will social post these at some point, if so, then on my dormant Mastodon account.
OR/AND
This is enough self-incentive to sign up for BlueSky and make my first post using these images.
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