could someone explain activitypub to me (poll edition)

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

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it's a pub with board games

115

19.1%

I'm a dude listen to me

10.9%

haha I'm in on this joke *WINK*

132

21.9%

activitypub is a decentralized social networking protocol published by the IETF

14.8%

it's like email

144

23.9%

nobody's falling for this again Christine

227

37.6%

Oh yeah, ActivityPub is the Mastodon Social Network Protocol

16.1%

I dunno but there sure are a lot of catgirls on here

332

55.1%

603 people voted.
Voting ended 13 June at 0:17.

Like 12 June at 0:17 | Open on octodon.social

21 comments

eviloatmeal

@cwebber Catgirl email, but on other people's compupers.

12 June at 0:27 | Open on ak.angelstrapped.com

Cyber Yuki

@cwebber

Nobody's falling for this again Christine

Ahhh, good ol' self-referential humor. ☺️

12 June at 0:34 | Open on hackers.town

kechpaja

@cwebber Oh, it's simple if you speak Klingon.

"ActivityPub" is just how speakers of Federation Standard pronounce the borrowed version of the original Klingon phrase _'aq tI, vI' tIy pab_.

The first part, _'aq tI_, means "vegetation predicts it" — in other words, a grassroots movement saw the Fediverse coming, and was able to prepare a segment of society to use it. Meanwhile, the latter portion _vI' tIy pab_ can be loosely translated as "follow the curly point", which is a bit more opaque but probably refers to practice of ending sentences with a comma instead of a period to emphasize that you will always have more to say in the future (since now you are on a platform that doesn't limit all posts to 280 characters).

I hope that makes it clearer.

@cwebber Oh, it's simple if you speak Klingon.

"ActivityPub" is just how speakers of Federation Standard pronounce the borrowed version of the original Klingon phrase _'aq tI, vI' tIy pab_.

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12 June at 0:39 | Open on social.kechpaja.com

Blaise Pabón

@kechpaja
Holy shit that actually makes so much sense.
@cwebber

12 June at 4:59 | Open on fosstodon.org

Athena L.M.

spoiler, may not be entirely accurate

@cwebber ActivityPub is a federated social networking protocol for the World-Wide Web developed under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The 2018 specification document, a W3C Recommendation, was edited by Christine Lemmer-Webber and Jessica Tallon with contributions by Erin Shepherd, Amy Guy, and Evan Prodromou. Notable implementations of the protocol include Mastodon, Meta Threads, Pixelfed, and PeerTube.

The protocol's successor, OCapN, remains in development by Lemmer-Webber and Tallon's Spritely Networked Communities Institute and other contributors.

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12 June at 0:39 | Open on solarpunk.moe

Ian Douglas Scott

@cwebber You should try asking that John Mastodon guy. I think he invented it.

12 June at 3:07 | Open on fosstodon.org

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@cwebber Not voting, I don't see the option for a Public School Felt Board with cars, buildings, and glued-together happy felt and pipe-cleaner people I can move around.

(Yes, I'm old enough to attend a school in the 1980s with leftover 1970's "edutech" that I shouldn't have even seen.)

12 June at 5:56 | Open on beige.party

Paul McO'Smith III

@Cefr @cwebber it is similar. it is a pub with no hard surfaces or sharp corners, with beer served in plastic cups so that the kiddies in the pub don't get injured when the inevitable glass throwing starts.

frankly, that sounds like the pub on the corner most nights.

12 June at 11:01 | Open on theblower.au