Post 458970 by freemo@qoto.org
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(DIR) Post #458970 by freemo@qoto.org
2018-10-10T04:38:34Z
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Why the protocol this server is built on (ActivityPub) is the future:https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the-future/
(DIR) Post #462610 by sandfox@qoto.org
2018-10-10T11:11:47Z
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@freemo > It’s bigger. It’s any piece of software that implements ActivityPubThat for example is not exactly a true statement. ActivityPub is so lax that fragmentation is unavoidable. Of course Eugen can claim such thing because Mastodon happens to be a dominating product that everyone will try to keep compatible with. But not for any minor player
(DIR) Post #465566 by freemo@qoto.org
2018-10-10T15:04:25Z
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@sandfox ActivityPub is a W3C standard. While you can of course not follow the standard as long as you do then the servers will talk to each other successfully. It has little to do with Mastodon being popular or not.
(DIR) Post #465762 by sandfox@qoto.org
2018-10-10T15:17:56Z
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@freemo What I meant is there may be two programs with correct implementation of activitypub that won't be able to communicate. The stupid example is 2 image sharing apps where one calls its activity "image" and the other one - "picture". Users should be able add each other as friends but their timelines will stay empty. There are infinite possibilities for more subtle metadata incompatibilitiesAlso I heard from Friendica devs that Mastodon is not strictly compliant but that may also mean that they don't understand the spec, I wouldn't judge here, I don't know
(DIR) Post #465849 by freemo@qoto.org
2018-10-10T15:22:27Z
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@sandfox I have no issue seeing things in my timelines with a contrary activity type. For example i can subscribe to peertube from ant activity pub server and see all posts, even if i am not on a video specific server. Usually all activity type is shared. Would be against the spec not to
(DIR) Post #466272 by sandfox@qoto.org
2018-10-10T15:44:49Z
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@freemo pixelfed will ignore everything except images and videos with special exception for private messages
(DIR) Post #466365 by freemo@qoto.org
2018-10-10T15:48:45Z
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@sandfox PixelFed doing that is not following the standard (though they can do it of course). The proper way to implement that would have been to make the filter user customization so they can set what is or is not in their feed. But otherwise render everything and if the post has a picture in it give it special rendering or something. Obviously assuming a specific activity type for all content is not the intention of ActivityPub