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   Émilio Gonzalez (res260@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 06:49:45 JST Émilio Gonzalez

   • Émilio Gonzalez

   I wish #ActivityPub allowed for a single identity to be used on myltiple services.

   I don't want to create a mastodon account AND a loops account AND a pixelfed account AND a lemmy account. Why can't I just have @res260? :(

   If AP steals one idea from #ATProto, it should be this.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 06:49:45 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @res260 we have a structure where différent services can post activities to the same account. Ask your software provider to support the ActivityPub API, also known as "client to server" or C2S. It solves this problem!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 07:53:41 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @res260 because of a cultural Fediverse thing. People started off trying to make servers that simulated existing commercial services: Fediverse Twitter, Fediverse Instagram, Fediverse YouTube. So they made servers that only handled one kind of data or activity. On top of this, Mastodon already had a "better" API when it implemented ActivityPub, so it stuck with it and never implemented the ActivityPub API. This also spread the incorrect idea that the ActivityPub API wasn't good.

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     Émilio Gonzalez (res260@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 07:53:42 JST Émilio Gonzalez

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @res260 I'll look this up thank you Evan. Is this not implemented much because it's a new thing, because of cultural fediverse chalenges or because of some other thing?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 08:04:33 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @res260 the first part of my book "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" is about the API because it's a really important part of the network. https://evanp.me/activitypub-book/