silverpill on Nostr: The biggest problem for peer to peer ActivityPub is the fact that ActivityPub is ...

The biggest problem for peer to peer ActivityPub is the fact that ActivityPub is primarily a "pull" protocol. You need to fetch a remote actor before interacting with it. This is not feasible in the environment where nodes are intermittently online.

What if we used a special activity to request objects? I've described this idea in more detail in **Asynchronous object retrieval**:

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/aef6/fep-aef6.md

I think this mechanism, if combined with [self-authenticating](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md ) objects, should make ActivityPub compatible with [store and forward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store_and_forward ) protocols.

#p2p #dtn #fep_ef61