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"Most issues with ActivityPub stem from one critical flaw: much of its behaviour is undefined. The core types and activities allow interactions that make little practical sense."

FeatherPub is an implementation of ActivityPub aimed at solving several problems with the Recommendation.

"[The SWF] even goes as far as wringing out the Fediverse’s own historical context as a multiprotocol polyglot network, by equating the Fediverse to just the ActivityPub protocol. Hey, look everybody, it’s Evan, the bold creator of The Social Web / Fediverse, with his one protocol that powers the entire thing!"

From the primary author of the ActivityPub spec:
"I am anticipating a crash/collapse of the fediverse in its current form at a not too distant future; hopefully we'll have more answers ready by then, but this is a multi-year project)"

"The short version of this is that I believe that Mastodon — more specifically federation and decentralization won't work out."

Discussion of issues with AP-AT bridges.

Experience report of attempting to write an ActivityPub server in OCaml.

Note for implementing ActivityPub federation.

There are four ways in which ActivityPub is a non-standard standard. This work is informed by reading the Social Web Working Group (SocialWG) meeting minutes, interviews with SocialWG members, and a study of historical documents.

"Unwanted messages are a challenge for all public communication systems. On a federated network without a central form of control, the challenge is extended to allowing for free communication between parties without a central means of control while at the same time preventing undesired or harmful messages." RWOT9 in Prague, The Czech Republic (September 2019)