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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by doctor_eval on Monday November 14, 2022 @06:43PM (#33603068)
Genuinely don’t understand. Is the ActivityPub protocol AGPL? Is there something stopping MS from just building their own server from scratch?
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by codefreakxff on Monday November 14, 2022 @06:52PM (#33603168)
They would also make a Microsoft owned version of the protocol to support features only their client and server supported
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by sitkack on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:55PM (#33605073)
Why wouldn't they just implement SOAP over JSON?
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by esarbe on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:42AM (#33620126)
ActivityPup is an API.

APIs are not protected by copyright.

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