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Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog

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Surprising how many people are misreading the comment/question. Responses range from people answering the question, "What is ActivityPub?", to "What is Mastodon?" To the original commenter: yes. This project is using ActivityPub kind of like RSS. Since it's ActivityPub and not merely RSS, the experience when using e.g. Mastodon as your reader, however, is "like RSS, worse". On the other hand, since it's ActivityPub,…

I kind of get lost with the ActivityPub/Fediverse story. When I subscribe to a blog's RSS feed, it's a decentralised and anonymous way of "following" the blog. Now if the blog uses ActivityPub and federates with Mastodon instances, then it's not a blog anymore, right? Or similarly, if Lemmy is supposed to be like Reddit, then it should not federate with Mastodon (everything that federates with Mastodon kind of become…

ActivityPub is a common language that allows describing "actors", "activities" and "objects" -- and as such, can describe any kind of social platform, from blog, to forum, to social media site, be it for photo sharing, video sharing, or something -- in your words -- Twitter-like. Not everything that uses ActivityPub will be 100% identical in user-facing functionality and UX, but most platforms have a concept of subscribing to other users, receiving new posts, and replying or re-sharing posts, which is where the interoperability comes to shine.

If your blog uses ActivityPub, it is still a blog. People could just subscribe to it to receive your posts in their home feed, reply to them, or re-share them in a way your blog could process (or choose not to).

Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog

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Half a million MAU.

500k users rounds to dozens, AFAIU ;) But, source?

I cannot relate to this way of thinking. That's about the entire city of Manchester. Do dozens of people live in Manchester? 500K is vastly more than any average person can ever hope to have as followers on Twitter; it's not a ceiling anyone debating joining Mastodon can reasonably run into unless they are a celebrity -- and those have the power to pull in anyone from anywhere.

Source: https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics

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