Explain me like i am 5

StandleStill

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:07:22 +0200 last edited: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:07:57 +0200

1) "The activitypub protocol does not support location independence. Connections you make within that network may be unreachable from alternate channel locations."

I am trying to interpret above statement
1A) What is location independence?
1B) Hubzilla supports location independence?
1C) What is alternate channel locations? Alternate channel locations means the channel i have at different location/hubs in hubzilla?

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Admin VFfsM e.V.

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:08:07 +0200

In Hubzilla you can create Clones of your channel on various servers (when you create a new channel click on "Import existing channel" in the end of the form), that's part of what we call Nomadic Identity. As a user you are relatively independent from the server(s) you use, you can use several servers simultaneous or move your channel regularly, how ever you like it.

But there is a big downside: other protocols (ActivityPub, Diaspora, Gnu Social) do not support this feature, so you should add contacts in other protocolls only to one of your channel clones to avoid double posts and id errors (mainly for your contacts, not necessarily for you).

In particular:
1A) independency from the Hubzilla server(s) you use that can be done with the help of channels clones (as described above)
1B) Yes (Hubzilla and Zap, but no others that I would know of)
1C) The channels vffsm2987@nbg.vffsm.de and vffsm@mint-n-er.de are clones of each other. As a Hubzilla user you could add one of them to your contacts, say vffsm@mint-n-er.de, and this contact will stay active even if the copy on mint-n-er.de is deleted or that server goes down for good (or bad); also you will have the contact on all clones of your own channel, if you have any. But this feature only works with Hubzilla (and probably with Zap) contacts, not with contacts from other protocols.