Part of my frustration with #ActivityPub and one of the things I find baffling giving everything else in it: the lack of tools for backpressure.
Backpressure is fundamental in building reliable distributed systems (c.f., Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods). From a C2S perspective I get why it wouldn't need to be specified, but from a S2S _federated_ protocol perspective its absence is frustrating.
All that it says is to take care not to overwhelm _others_ and a bit on rate limits
Hrefna (DHC) /
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2024-05-16 15:43:48
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npub1sq24x9tgfra9xwnfpwssaegxfj6hwfhnpa2nfjecp78x8wujfx2sqagk0yPublished at
2024-05-16 15:43:48Event JSON
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