Copying my comment from the cross-post. Anyone here know enough about ActivityPub to know how much work it will be to make it interoperate nicely with Lemmy in addition to Mastodon?

Looks like it’s still a WIP. lemmy.world says that it can’t find the user, but my instance shows his profile:

https://midwest.social/u/[email protected]

If you click on the full username, you get redirect to this page, which is the raw ActivityPub profile:

https://loops.video/ap/user/1

{
  "@context": [
    "https://w3id.org/security/v1",
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    {
      "toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns",
      "manuallyApprovesFollowers": "as:manuallyApprovesFollowers",
      "indexable": "toot:indexable"
    }
  ],
  "id": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1",
  "type": "Person",
  "following": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/following",
  "followers": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/followers",
  "inbox": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/inbox",
  "outbox": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/outbox",
  "preferredUsername": "dansup",
  "name": "dansup",
  "summary": "",
  "url": "https://loops.video/@dansup",
  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": true,
  "indexable": false,
  "published": "2024-06-06T10:30:00+00:00",
  "publicKey": {
    "id": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1#main-key",
    "owner": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1",
    "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA1zzC7XBF81lhJV1o47AA\n9JgguOxygANanxzRUaGOA7BUC9kAWbXI2CoQtzVBTGRiSaiy84d8UgdKQOiAT49m\nmmPdkdnb7zeL7PUKVucv5ppxL5pjXvx11FfYDOIvy52TxjirDIEhvSCiau3BSYf7\nvXtIgsoGnVTkDaStoDauDMfEPGnf6E7eCWHKPOkbeuxF3B3k/Mz2qEmg2MXxegt/\njE4Y75E0BiPs+GeCcYBwri6QddGlQlfveUmj5ZGN2AZGaZdZBNE4FlvJK14GIiTi\n/xT1rYJgwEViFSvGdqXXeRWcWth6UzyzzQrUARLniAf9xcFyYFdx6oJmI3Mu4EWd\nMwIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
  },
  "icon": {
    "type": "Image",
    "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
    "url": "https://loopsusercontent.com/avatars/1/v0.jpg"
  }
}

Based on the mention of toots and mastodon, I’m guessing he’s focusing on that first. Hopefully interoperability with Lemmy will come quickly though. Being able to embed loops as posts would be really nice.

Remember to direct your anger in the right place:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee#Current_leadership

Their failures gave us Trump and empowered nasty people like this. The entire structure needs replacing ground-up with people that aren’t gobbling corporate cock.

It would be nice if communities that are similar enough could “share” a comment thread, so you don’t end up with comments scattered over many different communities for the same link. The mods could toggle something in the settings and say “This other community is good and we’ll be OK sharing posts with them”. You also wouldn’t have to explicitly crosspost.

Some apps will collapse those into a single post, but not all of them, and not all the time. It would be nice if that were better.

It would be nice if there was a way to handle instance/user migrations. If an instance gets their domain name taken away, there’s no way AFAIK for the admin to say “Here’s our new location, with a verifiable signature”. Likewise there’s no way for a user AFAIK to move their account with a verifiable signature that the new one is still them. Ideally this could all happen automatically with signatures getting synced automatically and all that.

I’m sure it would be a lot of work and no idea if ActivityPub would get in the way, but it would give people a lot more assurance that they didn’t pick a server that will screw them over by going down.

Yeah, it’s not impossible, but it’s much harder and you get a lot less info. You can also counteract the JS-less tracking with Firefox’s privacy.resistFingerprinting, or by using the Tor Browser, which enables a lot of anti-surveillance measures by default. Here’s also another good site for discovering how trackable you are: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/