@evan I don't disagree that you can make all kinds of interesting patterns on top of AP. AP is extremely flexible, but also requires unofficial draft extensions like LOLA to satisfy my use-case.
To make ActivityPub feasibly accomplish my goals would take more work than making my own simple solution.
And in the end I would have an increasingly complicated half-compatible version of ActivityPub, instead of a simpler protocol that does exactly what I need.
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