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Re:Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t by pantalaimon on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:04AM (#36919903)
> I really hope activitypub doesn't die out because people are choosing old centralized solutions again, have they learned nothing?

The same happened back when XMPP/Jabber was the big thing, even Facebook and Google supported federation

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Re:Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t by pmlnr on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:38AM (#36955196)
The funny part is that XMPP can essentially do what AP can with https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html
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Re:Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t by Zash on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @10:22AM (#36956282)
Pretty sure I remember the AP spec author saying the whole thing works very much like XMPP. But they couldn't have built on top of XMPP for some unspecified reason.
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