Oh, you want to know how the fediverse/activitypub works?

[cwebber@social.coop]

Oh, you want to know how the fediverse/activitypub works? Let me explain it to you!!! 🧵

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub: It's like email!

[cwebber@social.coop]

I hear ActivityPub is like a bar with a lot of people doing different things

[cwebber@social.coop]

When two servers love each other very much, they have a baby, and the baby is named "federation"

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub?! Isn't that the spec with all the holes in it? I bet people can't even get two servers to talk to each other

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub uses ActivityStreams, which uses JSON-LD, which combines the best of both worlds

And by that I mean it makes json people angry and it makes linked data people angry

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub, which is abbreviated AT ("ATProto")

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub, which is abbreviated AP (AtProto)

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is just decentralized Bluesky

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is decentralized, but wouldn't it be better if it were distributed

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is whatever the queen of the fediverse says, but royalty isn't real, and now we're facing a constitutional crisis

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is that spec which @cwebber put all the emacs and lisp jokes in and nobody even noticed

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub? You mean the Mastodon network?!

[cwebber@social.coop]

Email: it's like ActivityPub

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is that protocol where you can send anything you want over it, as long as the thing you send is a Note (so Mastodon can read it)

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub? Don't you mean OStatus TNG

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub? Don't you mean the Pump API

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub? Don't you mean ActivityPump?

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub? Don't you mean XMPP XEP-0060

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is just social networks but for gays