Oh, you want to know how the fediverse/activitypub works? Let me explain it to you!!! 🧵
ActivityPub: It's like email!
I hear ActivityPub is like a bar with a lot of people doing different things
When two servers love each other very much, they have a baby, and the baby is named "federation"
ActivityPub?! Isn't that the spec with all the holes in it? I bet people can't even get two servers to talk to each other
ActivityPub uses ActivityStreams, which uses JSON-LD, which combines the best of both worlds
And by that I mean it makes json people angry and it makes linked data people angry
ActivityPub, which is abbreviated AT ("ATProto")
ActivityPub, which is abbreviated AP (AtProto)
ActivityPub is just decentralized Bluesky
@cwebber No, fedi is like the irc of microblogging
@mauve matrix is like xmpp if it worked and had E2EE