So, Richard McManus asked me about how ActivityPub supports cross-server usage. As an example use case, let's say a user with the account eric@social.example wants to comment on a photo by dionne@photos.example. In this scenario, Eric would go to the page https://photos.example/users/dionne/photos/1 and enter a comment. How would that work? I can talk about how … Continue reading Cross-server Interactions in ActivityPub
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Responses to Rabble on ActivityPub
My friend Evan Henshaw-Plath wrote recently about some concerns with ActivityPub. I want to go over his concerns one by one and give some assessment of how accurate and important I think they are. Rabble's words in italics; my responses in just normal text. User identities are tied to a server. This is only partially … Continue reading Responses to Rabble on ActivityPub