Looks like #ActivityStreams over #IPLD is very likely to be a thing some time this year!
Currently drafting up the grant milestones and figuring out budget.
Likely #rust or #golang to start along with some general #RDF goodies.
My hypothesis is that baking database indexes within the data itself will make it efficient to load people's posts over #p2p without needing to rely as much on indexing servers.
@mauve Cool, do the mentions of "data indexing itself", "Rust" and "RDF" entail that the (already existing) crates for HDT will get more attention?
And I'd love to see CRDTs based RDF editing become a reality; I've dreamed of that at http://christian.amsuess.com/idea-incubator/rdf-crdt-and-user-interfaces/ but not managed to actually make anything based on it.
@chrysn The data structure we're using is kind of like a CRDT already, but it can certainly be used in conjunction with other CRDTs for merging state for individual values. :o
Bluh, looks like the grant is gonna get scoped down so the ActivityStreams will need to be a subsequent thing. 😭 But hey, the RDF indexing is a more straightforward bet and would still benefit the AP use case after we get a better view of the performance implications of Prolly Tree search indexes.