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   Alessio Maffeis (maffeis@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 14:22:44 JST Alessio Maffeis

   It’s clear to me some folks don’t know/understand the difference between protocols and services.

   #Threads is (allegedly) going to support federation via the #ActivityPub protocol, meaning that users on other services implementing the protocol, like Mastodon, will be able to interact in some form.

   That doesn’t mean you’ll be able to use Threads with your Mastodon client. Clients don’t implement the protocol directly, they instead use Mastodon’s API which is specific to Mastodon.

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     Alessio Maffeis (maffeis@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 14:22:42 JST Alessio Maffeis

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     • Pelle Wessman

     @voxpelli interesting, I missed this! 🙏🏻
     But when it comes to protocols and standards, being technically superior is far from being a predictor of success. I have a strong feeling that ActivityPub is gonna be the VHS of federated social media.

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     Pelle Wessman (voxpelli@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 14:22:42 JST Pelle Wessman

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Ryan Barrett
     • iA

     @maffeis #ActivityPub is for federation whereas #micropub and #microsub are for interacting with your instance, so they are not really exclusive though.

     Micropub is already supported by tools like micro.blog, @ia Writer and such.

     Not sure if anyone has implemented it on top of an ActivityPub backend though.

     #Webmention, #WebSub and #Microformats would be the more direct #IndieWeb “competitor” to ActivityPub, but eg @snarfed.org and @pfefferle are both showing that the two can be bridged

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     Pelle Wessman (voxpelli@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 14:22:43 JST Pelle Wessman

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     @maffeis I like how the #IndieWeb is approaching this with #MicroPub and #MicroSub:

     * https://indieweb.org/Micropub
     * https://indieweb.org/Microsub

     Clients can chose to implement one or both of those.

     A typical social media app would implement both.

     An app that’s meant only for authoring posts picks just MicroPub and an app that’s simply meant for consumption picks just MicroSub.

     I find the #Fediverse / #Mastodon focus on #ActivityPub as the one and only API to be a bit lackluster in that regard.

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     Pelle Wessman (voxpelli@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 14:22:54 JST Pelle Wessman

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     • iA

     @maffeis @ia Would be neat for eg @manton if someone were to create a Micropub / Microsub to Mastodon API bridge and likewise for client creators of someone were to create a Mastodon API to Micropub / Microsub bridge.

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