a propos of nothing, i missed the "data portability" talk at tpac today (caught the last few minutes only) but i looked at the minutes https://www.w3.org/2024/09/25-data-portability-minutes.html and the slideshow linked in there too. i think this line is probably the real takeaway from the whole thing:

> standardized storage will be key in Activity Pub.

there's a whole class of problems that suddenly vanish when you decouple the storage from the transport. another class of problems disappears when you decouple identity.

@trwnh my ideal server stores all objects as plain text files, possibly in the original JSON-LD format and an equivalent XML. An auxiliary database may be used to speed up operations as necessary, but it's an auxiliary performance crutch. This makes the on-disk format as universal as possible.

@oblomov @trwnh Yep.

Store the whole thing; validate, index and interprete the parts you care about.

@nik @oblomov if or when i end up writing a server, that’s my plan too.