https://lwn.net/Articles/918224/
"ActivityPub-enabled microblogs are gaining popularity as a replacement for
Twitter, but ActivityPub is for more than just microblogging. Many other
popular services also have open-source alternatives that speak ActivityPub.
Proprietary services operated by commercial interests usually deliberately
limit interoperability, but users of any ActivityPub-enabled service should be
able to communicate with each other, even if they are using different services.
This promise of interoperability is often limited in practice, though; while
ActivityPub specifies how multiple types of content can be published, the kinds
of content that can be displayed or interacted with vary from project to
project.
The ActivityPub protocol describes how servers can exchange Activity Streams.
Microblogs mostly emit activities related to status updates (which is called a
"Note" in ActivityPub parlance), but there are many other types of objects that
can be described in these streams. ActivityPub projects that aren't microblogs
mostly specialize in publishing activities related to one or more of these
other types of objects; instead of notes, they publish pages, images, or
videos. All types of objects are allowed to contain some common fields,
including a name and a URL; software that doesn't understand a particular type
of object may fall back to using these fields to display a link to the object
on its original server instead, or may simply choose not display the object at
all."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
