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  • Hendrik Mans 🐝 https://norden.social/@hmans   •   Dec 16

    I've started reading up on #ActivityPub. So far I had been assuming that the "@user@host" scheme was baked into the protocol, but apparently it isn't, and it's perfectly capable of integrating user-less domains into the Fediverse.

    Have I misread it? (I admit I only did surface level reading so far.)

    If I haven't, wouldn't this mean that instances could (theoretically) also just act as hosting providers for #IndieWeb style domain-as-identity accounts?

    Aaron Parecki
    You're not wrong. The problem is the ActivityPub spec by itself doesn't give you enough to implement a working system, and Mastodon filled in the rest with decisions they made on their own.

    So what actually exists is mostly a Mastodon-specific protocol built on the ActivityPub framework.
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    • Hendrik Mans 🐝 norden.social/users/hmans

      @aaronpk That sounds bad :( If a site implements the spec version of ActivityPub, what are its chances of being feasibly well integrated into the Mastodon part of the Fediverse?

      Fri, Dec 16, 2022 2:02pm -08:00

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