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Re:The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse by goodpoint on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:13PM (#36764787)
> This is how the Web is supposed to work.

More like: this in how the Internet is supposed to work. ActivityPub is hardly "web" because it's not trying to attract traffic on a specific website.

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Re:The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse by riffic on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:17PM (#36764837)
ActivityPub is inherently web because it's a recommendation by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium):

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

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Re:The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse by goodpoint on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:23PM (#36766107)
Missing the point huh?
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Re:The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse by riffic on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:29PM (#36766161)
if the web people wrote a spec involving the web I'd say there's a fair chance it's web related.
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