On the subject of Reddit API shutdown — why is adversarial interoperability not a thing any more? Why does everyone play by the rules these days?
Many years ago, ICQ was the most popular IM service around me, but almost no one used the crappy official clients. Most people have never even seen them. The protocol was reverse engineered and documented and the 3rd-party client scene flourished.
What happened to this attitude? Is it because of the mobile app stores?
@grishka “DMs don’t exist in the ecosystem” so I think you’d need to do it yourself. Talk with Dansup maybe?
@grishka The
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activity is defined in ActivityStreams vocabulary: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-read. I don't know if anyone uses it but a similarView
activity is used by PeerTube: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/activitypub#view