Interesting that Mastodon didn't use ActivityPub originally. Did they have their own custom protocol then?
Edit: An early readme file says: "Based on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon."
Nicd
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2026-01-05 12:04:08 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…00ay
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