Typically?

I’ve never quite understood the appeal of ActivityPub.

Looking at the list of goals in the article, the only benefit in addition to what can easily be done with RSS is knowing who follows me. Maybe it’s just me, but if I’m writing to a blog or a microblog I just don’t really care who follows me or even who reads it.

There are more social features built into ActivityPub, likes and shares for example, but at that point I’m likely not running my own server and am trusting a third party to do it for me. The idea that there are multiple hosts I can choose to trust rather than one centralized one feels more like a principled argument than one based on real benefits of, for example, owning my own content or censorship resistance.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing ;)

I think it’s moved to beta since last Fall. Thanks for sharing! Does it only interact with Mastodon?

That’s very helpful! Thank you for taking the time to explain

I’ve only run docker containers with their own db. It sounds more logical to run one db, right? My only concern would be if that db corrupts then they all do.

Why do you like that over postgresql

I mean server side.

Oh that’s very nice! Do you use that db for other services too?

Thanks! Do you know if that is true for the two lemmy alternatives?

That I’m not a reactionary. You are right!

Never had a bad interaction with them.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. That’s the only video example I could think of too

Well written article. I wonder how common cross posting your content is for Mastoton and Bluesky? Or peertube and YouTube? I chose Mastodon because I believe in activityhub and YouTube because it actually has people. Would someone prefer mastodon but also share to bluesky?

I find it kind of goofy that they quote their own toots. Feels like tooting their own horn. Just say it, don’t need to quote it.

I just wrote my academic library a note saying they should add this to their awesome blogs

When you “private mention” someone, only you and they can see the post. And they can reply with a “private mention” of their own. But if anyone in that “private” thread accidentally mentions any other Mastodon account by name, that is itself considered a “private mention”, and that person is invited into the thread. It is an absolutely insane UI design that makes it extremely easy to share private conversations with exactly the people you don’t want reading them.

This is the best real critique

This problem became abundantly clear after setting up my solar bots on the mas.to instance: the mastodon.social instance (where I keep my personal account) had expressed no interest in any of these accounts, so none of their posts were available to my personal account. Crucially, the posts did not exist even if I visited the profile page of the account: even after weeks of daily posts, the profile page displayed by mastodon.social claimed the account had never posted, and the posts would only begin appearing after someone on mastodon.social began following the account. (And even then, for reasons far trickier to debug, some posts would never propagate to instances where they did have followers. The ActivityPub architecture and protocol are just flaky.)

Feels like half their argument is because no one wants their crappy bots

What I read to do is to call them out, report them, then block them. They need to know they’re being mean.

Like women only or hosted by women? Based on the selfhosted poll I’m guessing there is a 5% there is.

Fun break down! More comments is more interesting than more posts for me

Bro why waste so much energy on this. They don’t deserve it