Post #2923742
2026-02-28 22:29 UTC
@silverpill@mitra.social @steve@social.technoetic.com this actually raises an interesting question about "side effects" and where they live. in the AP spec it's rather muddled and i've talked before about the issue of "activities as content/notifications vs activities as procedure calls". i personally err toward having no side effects, which i think were kind of a mistake for the reason you bring up (generic servers can never be aware of extended side effects).
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@trwnh@mastodon.social 2026-02-28 22:36
@silverpill@mitra.social @steve@social.technoetic.com typically i've taken a view similar to IFTTT -- the activities describe things that happen, probably already happened. one or more listeners can do whatever they want with that information. CRUD is boring to me and i would rather do that with HTTP (POST/GET/PUT/DELETE); the more interesting activities are things like Listen (scrobbles) or Arrive (checkins) or Question (stackoverflow) or so on.