In-reply-to » 👋 Hey y'all yarners 🤗 -- @darch and I have been discussing in our Weekly Yarn.social call (still ongoing... come join us! 🙏) about the experimental Yarn.social <-> Activity Pub integration/bridge I've been working on... And mostly whether it's even a good idea at al, and if we should continue or not?

In other words, choosing to follow an actor does not follow the same model as Yarn/Twtxt does, where we then decide to “fetch” their feed. In fact it’s the other way around, you end up telling server X that you’re interested in actor Y, and servers X will then “push” stuff back to you. You can see how this can lead to some of the infamous DoS behaviours that can occur in the wild 🤣

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