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Big news! 🎉
Loops federation is working beautifully!
Want proof?
Search this URL in your fediverse app and check out the comment/mention threading in action:
https://getloops.social/v/azWp4zwJ05?rid=bfGf2EgZ21
Spread the word, the fediverse now has an open source TikTok alternative that is truly decentralized.
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Big news! 🎉
Loops federation is working beautifully!
Want proof?
Search this URL in your fediverse app and check out the comment/mention threading in action:
https://getloops.social/v/azWp4zwJ05?rid=bfGf2EgZ21
Spread the word, the fediverse now has an open source TikTok alternative that is truly decentralized.
@dansup I still can't find my account loops in universal search. But by link it works.
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Big news! 🎉
Loops federation is working beautifully!
Want proof?
Search this URL in your fediverse app and check out the comment/mention threading in action:
https://getloops.social/v/azWp4zwJ05?rid=bfGf2EgZ21
Spread the word, the fediverse now has an open source TikTok alternative that is truly decentralized.
@dansup that site won’t load for me
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Big news! 🎉
Loops federation is working beautifully!
Want proof?
Search this URL in your fediverse app and check out the comment/mention threading in action:
https://getloops.social/v/azWp4zwJ05?rid=bfGf2EgZ21
Spread the word, the fediverse now has an open source TikTok alternative that is truly decentralized.
@dansup
It's great news, indeed! -
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@jackwilliambell @silverpill or as the indieweb people will argue, you should just embed this information in the html which you are likely already publishing, because sidecar formats are bad (single source of truth).
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@jackwilliambell @silverpill not entirely as it should be imo -- the problem is equivocation. people using the same terms but with different meanings. the expectation is that you agree ahead-of-time; the reality is that no one actually checks this. it's not about "one protocol to rule them all" but the protocol is undefined in many places and undefined behavior is bad. or people use their own interpretations not exactly matching the official definitions, because to them it's "close enough".
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@jackwilliambell @silverpill i want to believe that good docs and clean design reign supreme, but the reality is that worse is often better. there are so many technologies that are widely used because their value is almost entirely in what consumes them. atom vs rss is the clearest example of this -- atom is far superior, but rss will live on because of iTunes-style podcast indexers. who consumes jsonfeed? not as many as atom or rss. but at least you can publish multiple formats.
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> "fedi is ruled more by consensus and alignment than by spec."
Which is as it should be. Trying to tie everything down to a 'single protocol to rule them all' is both an impossible goal and a barrier to creativity.
But I am concerned that (a) Mastodon uses ActivityPub in a way not intended by the protocol designers and (b) is becoming the standard you have to follow – when the protocol itself isn't being modified to be more 'Mastodon friendly'; for lack of a better term.
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@jackwilliambell @silverpill idk if activitypub has "failed", but if you want to talk to anyone, you are better suited going to their docs instead of the actual spec. or their codebase.
in practice, the biggest flavours are mastodon and lemmy. there's some overlap, and some other flavours that are more niche (funkwhale). fedi is ruled more by consensus and alignment than by spec.
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I'd argue what drives adoption is ease of use first; even fitness to a use case comes second to good docs, a clean design, and a comprehensible reference implementation.
JSONfeed seems to be 'Atom in JSON'. Which works for me and the microblogging use cases I am envisioning.
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@jackwilliambell @silverpill i think the "hard to grok" is often misattributed to json-ld and rdf, but those are entirely optional, so that's not the real problem. the real problem is the poor data modeling for anything that isn't an activity. you already identified things like Hashtag not making sense; the lack of sense-making extends to other types like Mention and Link. there's other ambiguities like Collection, which can be both paged and unpaged at the same time. it can be quite messy!
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That's more background information I didn't have. And I've done quite a bit of research into ActivityPub, before I gave up trying to figure out a way to untangle all the ways extant implementations were using it that didn't match the docs.
So, what about the non-Mastodon (and Mastodon workalike) Fedi implementations? It seems to me they all have some weirdness to them, but have we got to the point Mastodon-compatibility is required to use the Fedi? Has ActivityPub failed?
