Oh, you want to know how the fediverse/activitypub works?

[cwebber@social.coop]

ActivityPub: It's like email!

[cwebber@social.coop]

I hear ActivityPub is like a bar with a lot of people doing different things

[cwebber@social.coop]

When two servers love each other very much, they have a baby, and the baby is named "federation"

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cwebber you see, activity pub is a duck, and all those little notes are crackers. it can't get enough of those things!

[triskelion@fosstodon.org]

@cwebber https://social.coop/@cwebber/114621284495929061

Minutes after admitting you don't know how hashtags work... and suddenly you're explaining on ActivityPub like you wrote it. What a charlatan!

[unlofl@mstdn.social]

@cwebber

[eq@mas.to]

@cwebber

And now you have to explain what email is to the iphone generation!

[cwebber@social.coop]

@eq I already had a post about usenet

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cwebber In the spirit of your call for joke explanations, I'd like to elaborate on my contribution above. I don't really know what the deal is with mastodon Notes, but I saw a remark that reminded me of a little known interview with my friend Game Developer David Lynch where he explains how fill rate works, so I was riffing on that. #explainexplainap

[cwebber@social.coop]

@aeva This is amazing

[morix@loci.onl]

@cwebber sure but how's it pronounced? Is the emphasis on the first T or the second T? and the P or the UB?

acTivity-Pub, activiTy-Pub, acTivity-pUB, or activiTy-pUB

Also is the "pub" part pronounced short or long. is it like Activity-Pub (short), Activity-Pube (long1), or Activity-Pubbb (long2), or Activity-Pubbo (long3)

or am I meowing up the wrong spec totally?

[cwebber@social.coop]

@morix it's just pronounced activitypub

[indieterminacy@social.coop]

@cwebber I feel brutally discombobulated by this thread - if only my brain had a soft reset option. #congrats

[uriel@x.keinpfusch.net]

@cwebber@social.coop is basically overcomplicated, incompetent SMTP, plus some overcomplicated, incompetent SIP, plus some overcomplicated, incompetent XMPP.

Each one I mentioned could replace it.

[cwebber@social.coop]

@uriel Wow this time I said I was going to explain it and someone explained AP to me anyway

Thanks, I hope you can replace ActivityPub with each of those technologies! It will be more competent then. Good luck!