"#FOAF allows a group of friends to represent their real-life social graph digitally by hosting FOAF documents on their own homepages. It allows them to do this without surrendering control of their data to a centralized database in the sky run by a billionaire android-man who spends much of his time apologizing before congressional committees." - #SinclairTarget, 'Friend of a Friend: The #Facebook That Could Have Been ' https://twobithistory.org/2020/01/05/foaf.html
@dashie@pixelfed I seldom use #FTL for discovery. I use #FOAF, and sometimes hashtags. I follow a lot of people, who I sometimes unfollow, just because it casts my net wider to meet their more interesting friends ;)
From what I've been told by a #FOAF who worked there, #CloudAtCost is their test installation for scalability development. Everyone who subscribes helps build their infrastructure for other projects. So essentially, it's unreliable by design. Still a good deal for your non-production stuff, tho.
Am I far off assuming that #ActivityPub is sort of a next generation implementation of #PubSubHubbub and other technologies that made weblogs (remember those?) talk to each other? In other words, is it time to dust off my #foaf yet?