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   Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 22:35:58 JST Paul Ford

   When Mastodon federates, does it do so by polling all the different accounts I follow to ask for their latest posts, then save those results to its local Postgres? Does it also fetch images, etc?

   Does it cache that ahead of time or when I show up?

   Tell me what I should read—I'm finding the basics of ActivityPub okay to grasp, because I am familiar with their ancestors, but implementation details are confusing. Like what are the basic responsibilities of a "server" in a fediverse app? I know there's a post out there for me to read somewhere...

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 22:35:56 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @ftrain this seems pretty good:

     https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/guide-for-new-activitypub-implementers/479

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 22:44:36 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @ftrain@tilde.zon

     @cwebber did a wonderful illustrated primer at one point.

     I'm not sure where to find it though. Christine, any URLs?

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     Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 22:44:37 JST Paul Ford

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan thank you my friend!!!