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   Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 00:35:11 JST Bob Jonkman

   • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   @evan

   Yes, but...

   I understand the RSS and Atom specs well enough that I've created programs with RSS/Atom feeds. But the ActivityPub spec scares the willies out of me. Too many moving parts.

   #ActivityPub #RSS #Atom

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 00:35:10 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @bobjonkman you should read my blog post.

     https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/09/04/static-activitypub-publishing/

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 05:06:13 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • Dave Winer ☕️
     • Jon Udell
     • Sam Ruby

     @judell @bobjonkman @samruby definitely @davew is on the Fediverse!

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     Jon Udell (judell@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 05:06:15 JST Jon Udell

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
     • Sam Ruby

     @bobjonkman @evan Relevant: http://scripting.com/davenet/2001/04/04/aBusyDevelopersGuideToSoap.html.

     Back in the day both Dave Winer (no Fediverse handle?) and Sam Ruby ( @samruby) showed ways to do The Simplest Possible Thing with SOAP.

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     Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 05:06:16 JST Bob Jonkman

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @evan

     I just finished reading your post (after posting my previous reply) and it confirms my thought that ActivityPub, even a static implementation, has too many moving parts. I'll follow some of the links in your post (later, I've been rate-limited) to see if I can wrap my head around it. I've never been able to wrap my head around anything Ruby, tho.

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     🫧 Social coding commons (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 05:10:49 JST 🫧 Social coding commons

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @bobjonkman @evan

     The ActivityPoll #FEP has a very unfortunate name, clashing and overloading with the existing concept of a #Poll on the fediverse. The mechanism it documents is generally called #Polling.

     https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/b06c/

     #ActivityPub

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 05:13:21 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @bobjonkman I think it's possible to tighten up the file structure even further, by using embedded objects with fragment identifiers. That said, I think it's a big step forward for publishers. I was able to make a plugin for Jekyll pretty quickly.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 05:13:22 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • 🫧 Social coding commons

     @smallcircles @bobjonkman I think "very unfortunate" is an exaggeration.