@silverpill @smallcircles I talked to some more ActivityPub savvy colleagues and it does look like you could technically accomplish lots of our goals with ActivityPub, if combined with Iroh for storage.
But ActivityPub is also largely underspecified, and would require extensions that many AP servers don't support.
We prefer to make a very precise protocol specification to give tight interoperability at it's core, but allow component data and schemas to develop independently for extension.
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