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@feld Here is my opinion, some of the objections are valid:

• libraries are few and kind of poor quality (that's probably a bad sign even if you can't narrow down the reason)
• most developers don't like it
• it doesn't actually guarantee correctness of the data you're generating or receiving

at the same time:

• it's not as hard as people say
• there are other aspects of activitypub that are also difficult to get right.

advantages as I see it:

• unambiguous canonicalization
• tons of other web standards use it so you're going to run into it again
• you should be required to namespace extensions and JSON-LD is a standard way to mark which vocabulary something is from
• more flexibility in how to shape your data because you always just expand it before processing