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Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API (wedistribute.org)
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The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here's what they're up to.

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[โ€“] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's not great. Unfortunately, there's not a great way to describe this stuff without either leaning into abstract terms, or using oversimplifications.

The short of it is: only half of the ActivityPub protocol really got adopted by most of the Fediverse: the stuff that lets servers talk to each other. The other half would allow for a lot of cool things to be built, with not everything being its own Fediverse server.

[โ€“] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Surely they could've just included some reference to activitypub, e.g. "Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on ActivityPub Client-to-Server API". that's so much clearer