a blind man stumbles into the activitypub (awful.systems)

submitted 8 months ago by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/freeasm@awful.systems

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since I haven't touched AP before (and figure other possible contributors may not have either), going to use this post as wayfarer bathroom graffiti

feel free to contribute your own learning and investigation as well

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

probably the first thing to learn is:

activitypub is underspecified and the implementations are idiosyncratic.

this means that you can only get interoperability that works by trying pairs of software against each other and seeing what works. following the spec is only the first step.

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