2020-01-12 UTC
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trwnh in mastodon's case for example, there isn't a discrete activitypub component in the server stack -- it just uses transformers between the internal database and the federation controller. you can't interface with the activitypub bits in mastodon, they're abstracted away. you are a user posting a status, not an actor creating a note. it's just that for federation purposes that information is encoded as Actor Create Note over the wire (and then transformed