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Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:21:57 +0100

Edent@mastodon.social

? blog! “How updates work in ActivityPub / Mastodon”

I didn't realise this, so I'm documenting it to stop other people making the same silly mistake that I did. Messages in ActivityPub have two distinct ID strings. Here's a (truncated) view of what happens when I send a new message on Mastodon: "id": "https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/1234567890/activity", "ty…

? Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/how-updates-work-in-activitypub-mastodon/
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Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:20:36 +0100

Terence Eden

Edent@mastodon.social

@jupiter_rowland

I used Masto as an example - but I'm receiving lots of messages from many different AP servers. They're all slightly different.

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:23:18 +0100

Teixi

teixi@mastodon.social

@Edent @jupiter_rowland

Yep, when looking at the masto clients repos, it is confusing to distinct #mastodon #Api from #ActivityPub protocol... next post further clarifying differences ?

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 10:15:19 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Teixi @Terence Eden Looks like many mobile apps for Mastodon were made by people who were new to Mastodon, totally giddy about it, eager to improve the mobile experience, but at the same time clueless. They didn't distinguish much between ActivityPub and the Mastodon API, and at that point, they didn't even know that the Fediverse is more than just Mastodon.

That's also why there are apps that technically support everything that uses the Mastodon API, but that don't have any features beyond vanilla Mastodon 3.x and don't even support over 500 characters.

At the same time, I think, there isn't a single app purely built against the ActivityPub standard and for the Fediverse in general. It simply wouldn't be compatible with Mastodon. Even supporting the full ActivityPub standard next to the Mastodon API seems unattractive.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #ActivityPub #Mastodon