Yeah, we're quite familiar with ActivityPub.
There are lots of things that go into it not being sufficient for what we're imagining, but one of the most basic limitations is that when you use actual URLs for entities, you are dependent on DNS and servers, which defeats many local-first use-cases.
Zicklag /
npub1z5…uevsh
2024-07-16 19:03:42
in reply to nevent1q…awuh
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npub1z53xkqmz905j6mp6sl7q7ddtedyh4ppxkz6n2xl3ek0kkfr6rghsduevshPublished at
2024-07-16 19:03:42Event JSON
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