#social 2022-11-14
2022-11-14 UTC
# ↩️ The #Fediverse is built on the ActivityPub https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ decentralized social networking protocol.
#Mastodon offers a twitter-like alternative with no advertising and fewer trolls. ( twitter.com/_/status/1591965662079074304)
# ↩️ @AndrewEBuckley1 You can read the standard here: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
you can view the internals of mastodon a… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1589390097505751040 ( twitter.com/_/status/1589390097505751040)
# ActivityPub is a great example of the sort of thing I think of as information architecture that most other folks maybe don’t.
But it *is* a shared information environment, using rule sets as structural choices supporting principles for human habitation.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ ( twitter.com/_/status/1591992559940665344)
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# ↩️ Nein, es ist richtig und gut so.
ActivityPub ist wie eMail dort kann der Empfänger auch entscheiden welche Domains er zulässt und welche nicht.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ ( twitter.com/_/status/1592136151753695233)
# ↩️ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Outbox fetch would seem ideal, from a cache perspective; you could also serverside distinct all the follows, fetch and fan out to people on the server etc.
Reality is a bit different though. ( twitter.com/_/status/1592139214938075136)
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# After this whole Twitter fiasco, I saw a bunch of people moving of to Mastodon. What I didn’t know was it’s based on a protocol from W3C called ActivityPub, which is basically a spec for decentralized social networks.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ ( twitter.com/_/status/1592225203920457728)