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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The problem as I understand it is basically that user IDs in ActivityPub are intrinsically tied to the domain on which the user registered, so you can't really move a user from one domain to another.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's not true, all ActivityPub IDs are URIs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes exactly - those URLs contain the domain name, so you can't change servers for a user as their ID is tied to the domain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They can be URNs (like magnet:), as shown above.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Well no they can't, because that's not part of ActivityPub. In fact ActivityPub mandates HTTP URLs. Of course, any extension can choose to change that, but since nobody is actually supporting magnet links, it's not relevant.