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   Steve Bate (steve@social.technoetic.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 22:36:33 JST Steve Bate

   I’m beginning to wonder if the email mental model some people suggest for #ActivityPub is a serious hindrance to understanding the concept of a federated, decentralized social graph.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 22:36:30 JST silverpill

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     • Julian Lam

     @steve @trwnh @devnull ActivityPub is a decentralized data store where nodes synchronize state by exchanging "activities"

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     infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 22:36:31 JST infinite love ⴳ

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     @devnull @steve activitypub is email for websites, but what you're passing around is more than just a message. (by "activitypub" i mean the "post to inbox/outbox" bits)

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     Steve Bate (steve@social.technoetic.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 22:36:31 JST Steve Bate

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     • Julian Lam

     @trwnh @devnull So ActivityPub is basically just WebMail? ;-) Where does the social graph and applications (far) beyond twitter-like clones fit into this view?

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     Julian Lam (devnull@crag.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 22:36:33 JST Julian Lam

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     @steve is email the "right" mental abstraction, or is it just the most convenient?

     Even *during* the advent of email, "to", "cc", and "bcc" seemed oddly outdated, but that's because it too, came from something before it.

     Nowadays with fine-grained permissions and ACLs baked into a lot of the software we already use, stuffing it into a recipient list seems awkward at best.