@cwebber it's a drinking establishment with board games, I think

Feel free to boost this pretty widely, would love to learn about what ActivityPub is and why I should care

@cwebber It's a whole bunch of different federal and state services in a shared universe where the organization's personas interact with each other. Much like a mix of Marvel Cinematic Universe and Hetalia: Axis Powers.

@cwebber activitypub is how people do kissing when they are very far away from each other

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i was about to ask you since you seem to have just migrated to this freddyverse thing

i think it’s some kind of website where the sky is not blue or something like that

@cwebber @djsundog it means 50 people are going to reply to this thread, and the people replying do not see a lot of the other replies

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No problem, let me mouse-splain this to you.
You see, the fediverse is like a large cheese... :blobcatgiggle:

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@cwebber The #Fediverse is a searchable hashtag.
The Fediverse, as I understand it, is an alternative zone not driven by advertisers or venture capitalists, where one can jump between servers, with no switching costs as opposed to the walled gardens of Facebook and or BlueSky.

@cwebber it's probably some sort of like. it resembles a restaurant but it's not. and also there's "activity" there. i hear that these "activities" include excessive awawa-ing among other things. but I don't know

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[ignore the lenghty bullshit I just wrote]

Edit: Chapeau...you got me. If you are one of the brains that drew this up, you really don't need my explanation how this works.

@cwebber An ActivityPub is when you have like quizzes and darts and pool and such, and you play it versus Friends and Enemies and Dastardly Interlopers - FEDIversus

@cwebber the fediverse is the network, the protocol is activitypub

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I think an ActivityPub is a place with ale and darts.

And a Fediverse is a really big car, I guess.

Maybe you can ask one of the people in this document: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/

@cwebber IIRC last time you asked someone tried to explain it to you. Don't be mean.

@cwebber ActivityPub is a gym where you can also go drinking

@cwebber An activity pub is a pub with fun activities like board games and craft projects. There's an activity pub instance near me that has an adult coloring book night. It sounds wholesome, but they can get quite rowdy!

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@cwebber It’s a series of tubes, I think

@cwebber@social.coop i know someone who can explain it really well -- you should ask @cwebber@octodon.social

@cwebber The "Fediverse" is a number of different applications, of which Mastodon is one. They all talk to each other using a protocol called ActivityPub. But outside of that, their capabilities and user interfaces and so on may be substantially different. There are, for example, YouTube-like streaming video sites, GoodReads-like sites for tracking your reading, etc., and they can all communicate such that when you read and review a new book, your post about it might appear in someone else's Mastodon feed, etc.

@cwebber A logistical marvel of engineering designed for the sole purpose of distributing cat pictures at scale using everyday things you have lying around the house, like a NetBSD toaster. Moderation here means being careful not to overheat the toaster you are using to serve the cat pictures.

#fediverse

@cwebber Wait, did I just get suckered? ;) I just saw an earlier post saying you co-authored the ActivityPub standard!

@cwebber I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as ActivityPub, is in fact, Mastodon/ActivityPub, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Mastodon plus ActivityPub. ActivityPub is not a social networking system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning system made useful by the Mastodon server, ActivityStreams extensions, and client web app comprising a full social media app.

@cwebber@social.coop It's actually called ActivityPub's Monster, Fediverse is the new email thing

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When a girl wants to tease a nerd, sometimes she'll help write a w3c standard...

@cwebber lol, welcome to social.coop!

@cwebber christine no

@cwebber it's a protocol for trolling commenters across different social networks.

@cwebber It's an update for the Cats-Over-HTTPS protocol

It's a bit complicated to explain given Mastodon's shitty character limits but think of it like replying to a Threads post from Twitter. It's a series of interoperable social media platforms that no one entirely controls. @theverge has a detailed article somewhere.

@cwebber woke up and chose violence huh xD /lh

@cwebber Wish I knew. Still trying to understand this information superhighway thingamajig.

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@cwebber it's a website founded by a guy called gargron ramsey based on a protocal he developed with a professional ui design company

@cwebber It's a tool for mansplaining on as many different websites as possible at once.

@cwebber AIUI Fe diverse is a community for those that love various things made of/with iron, like Rust and robot girls

@cwebber@social.coop ok so basically you're supposed to make your instance as cool as possible, which is one of the most important swags of the fediverse. the single most important factor here is choosing a funny domain name, the longer the better (as long as they're not spammy).

@cwebber https://fedi.tips/

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