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

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is when you have a hard drive, and you want to fill it up, but not fill it up as much as a full atproto relay, so you fill it up just most of the way

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is you. It was you all along. It was all of us

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is when you send HTTP requests to actors' inboxes, but then you get confused letters back from the actors because they don't want to read computer things they just want to star in shakespeares

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub, it's like Spritely

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub, it's a protocol best understood when explained to you. Which is why I am doing this, and why you must do it to me. We have to know to keep this place running

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub was born fully formed from the head of @evan when he had a huge headache and he threw it into the sea and it walked out and there it was, ActivityPub

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub was when @tsyesika decided we needed the MediaGoblin Network. Later on Mastodon decided to also become a member of the MediaGoblin Network. And that's how we got ActivityPub

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub was when @erincandescent transcribed ancient scrolls onto loose leaf paper, scanned the paper into a scanner, ran it through OCR, and then said "the W3C should learn about this"

And that's how we got ActivityPub

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub was formed when @rhiaro emerged from the forest and held scribblings written upon a giant leaf and said "these are pretty good scribblings, but it would be even better if..." and then TORE the leaf in two, and then that's how we got the Client-to-Server and Server-to-Server protocols as two separate things

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub is a dating network for people who like open source, and also the gays who make animal noises