Post #3985698

2026-07-21 10:21 UTC

@smallcircles@social.coop in this case, you can't follow unless nodeinfo gives the proper software name. So one can't build new software meant to interact with this one.

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@smallcircles@social.coop 2026-07-21 12:27

@dmathieu@fosstodon.org NodeInfo isn't part of #ActivityPub and neither is it required to be implemented by fedi software. What #fediverse is and isn't is an interesting question. Does following between actors make the software on both ends part of the fediverse? Should a fediverse app support #microblogging? Be compatible with Mastodon? Perhaps being part of fediverse means if 2 independent 3rd-parties are able to interoperate with each other? Does that require sending Follow msgs? If someone has a federated Product catalogue that federates with itself and a 3rd-party Order delivery service, is it part of the fediverse? Even when no Follow is sent? It is undefined what being part of the fediverse means. There used to be a Federated Network Association (Feneas) as a major dev community besides #SocialHub, which defined fediverse as any software that implemented AP, #XMPP, or #Matrix protocol. @steve@social.technoetic.com even wrote that nothing even truly implements AP, and I tend to agree. https://www.stevebate.net/nothin-implements-activitypub/

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