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Just a reminder:

Mastodon != ActivityPub != Fediverse

It's been driving me up the wall how often people act like Mastodon is a synonym for both AP and Fedi.

in reply to Shiri Bailem

For clarity:

Mastodon: A server built on the activitypub protocol

ActivityPub: the language used Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube, etc to federate with eachother

Fediverse: vague term encompassing all federated platforms, including not only ActivityPub but also Diaspora, and Gnu.social among others. (One of the reasons I host a Friendica instance is because it supports the entire fediverse and not just AP)

in reply to Shiri Bailem

The real problem with AP is it doesn't support blogging and podcasting solutons. I think it's related to the 500 character limit /s
This entry was edited (9 months ago)
in reply to ראַף 🟣

@raf WordPress, Plume and Writefreely can all do long form blogging over activitypub, and Castopod does podcasts over it. The 500 character limit is imposed by your instance (or I think by Mastodon itself?), I'm on an Akkoma instance and I have 5000 characters, a previous instance I was on had 10000!
in reply to Velveteen

@Vel 💽 @raf I think you just missed the edit to add /s before sending this, it was a joke sarcastic response
in reply to Velveteen

@Vel 💽 @raf it takes a while for the edit to propogate. You sent 10 minutes after the edit, but it could be an hour from now before your instance gets the edit.
in reply to Velveteen

@Velveteen
Yea I was trying to pretend all those and Funkwhale didn't exist! The reply needed to be more over the top
in reply to ראַף 🟣

@raf @Vel 💽 Poe's Law, there's no point at which you are over the top enough to convey that you're not serious