Episode 564: ActivityPub Is Weird

Daniel returns home from vacation and he and Manton talk about Meta’s Threads launch. They discuss how misunderstandings about what ActivityPub provides could impact expected user-facing features. Finally they revisit whether Tumblr will still support ActivityPub, and which platform gets there first: Tumblr or Threads?

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Links:

  • ATP 543 — On not having a Mac version of Threads.
  • Dithering July 11 – On the great execution by the Threads team.
July 16, 2023 at 4:41 pm.