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Wouldn't that be better? Let me see if I can explain what I mean. Here on the fediverse each server is kind of restricted to what the user can post.

@Mastodon@mastodon.social is for notes

@pixelfed@pixelfed.social for photos (wouldn't be surprised if it used a note too)

Lemmy only for article objects.

Peertube for videos.

You get the idea.

This way of developing the #fediverse where each server only receive one kind of the objects accepted by #ActivityPub makes it more fragmented it, right? A server should send and receive all kinds of objects and should be up to the client to how to processes those objects.

If an user wants an Instagram-like app just create an account on any service and use and app with that UI, of lager they wanted to see more kinds of objects they should just use another client that supports Note, Article, etc. with the same account on the same server.

Ideally all server should have a shared API.

This fixes #fragmentation, the need to have multiple accounts if you are into multiple kinds of objects/content.

[-] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

No, I kept going back to this one, but thankfully someone (@drcouzelis@lemmy.zip) found it. Thanks nevertheless.

[-] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you so much!

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A couple of months ago I saw a comic by @MrLovenstein@mastodon.social but I can't find it.

It was about for what I can recall the parents of the character were congratulating him for an achievement, and the character says something along the lines: "They now won't know that I'm actually a failure" or "That I don't know what I'm actually doing".

By the way, I couldn't find a better community to ask this.

[-] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, it sucks. But I think that at a certain point it will need to happen if we want to make ActivityPub better with better portability.

[-] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

I think there's a FEP that could (or fixes) this. To my understanding ID can be any URI, so there are better ways. I guess it's hard because it would brake a lot of stuff or how mastodon is build.

[-] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago

For a second I thought the ActivityPub specification got updated.

[-] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Literally one of the reason for the existence of this thread.

[-] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

I recently wanted to do the same and came upon ShareX, it did a pretty good job.

GitHub F-Droid

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I'm trying to learn more about the protocol, and after years of being around in the fediverse there's obviously areas where the protocol could improve. I was reading some of the fep documents and there are really good proposals. How long for these to be part of the protocol? Last update was 2018.

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