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Discussion about how trying to pretend that JSON-LD is JSON, like in Activity Streams 2.0 and ActivityPub, leads to many problems.

"[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!"

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

There are a number of issues with the decentralized nature of the Fediverse. One of them is that we are not seeing replies from people we do not follow.