My understanding is that ActivityPub is a protocol to transfert activities, not content (a post, an image, a video...), between servers (instances). Users and content, and type of content are defined within the servers and may be not supported by another instance, even if ActivityPub does.
ActivityPub is more capable than what we think, because of Mastodon being the biggest player, but not using all features (yet ?). The protocol could run a social network (I think), but applications are not or very very slowly discovering what they could do with it.
I feel that each application is first looking internally what they could offer, not thinking of the protocol capabilities.
(example : you have different icons to "like"/"favourite"/... a post in Misskey. This granularity is supported by ActivityPub, but no Mastodon instances understand it, neither pixelfed or lemmy. One Mastodon user will not see all "like" icons set by Misskey users).
I had accounts on a pixelfed (photo posts) , a kbin (forum like), a peertube (video posts) instance. All 3 shut down with 18 months. All my posts are gone. (I have my original content 😉 ). It's really really easy to lose data today on any activitypub connected server, rather than a centralised commercial driven social network...
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2024-05-15 19:51:53
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