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What is so hard about implementing ActivityPub? What could have been done better? (lemy.lol)
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I heard often about activityPub being challenging to implement.

Now I know part of this is because, if you are building on activityPub, you want interop with existing platforms such as mastodon, and they do their own thing.

But ignoring that aspect, what is so hard about activityPub? What could have been done better?

I am a software developer, so feel free to use software dev concepts and terms when explaining. Thanks!

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the protocol doesn’t define how to ensure activities propagate to every server.

Outboxes are kinda that, but as I understand it mastodon's implementation is deliberately defective.