Post #1702104
2026-04-23 22:14 UTC
@jaz @fediversereport @laurenshof I appreciate your generous interpretation. Here's what he said, in context:
"For the fediverse, resilience comes from the fact that there are tens of thousands of servers all interoperable with each other. But the Activitypub protocol specification does not even mention the concept of servers or instances. [...]"
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@evan@cosocial.ca 2026-04-23 22:14
@jaz @fediversereport @laurenshof "[...] ActivityPub is a protocol that specifies how Actors can send each other messages. Specific implementations such as Mastodon used this protocol to build twitter-like software that anyone could run for themselves. Because other people could run other ‘instances’ of the same software, servers emerged as a concept from a protocol that did not specify it. [...]"