Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
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).