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"ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora" (overengineer.dev)
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[–] sciawp@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

This was a good read and it’s something I’ve wondered about. The fediverse is sorta built on this promise that everyone will be able to interact across any implementation of ActivityPub.

But that’s not really true. The different types of social media have wildly different implementations, where we have to rely on developers communicating and cooperating with other implementations for everything to work even a little bit