@evan So has there been any indication of one of these platforms switching to ActivityPub API?

Also, I tried looking up the answer myself on the Git repo, but I couldn't really find an easy answer—what would be the advantage of switching API? Does it expand the types of content different Fediverse accounts can show?

@mkljczk @gotosocial @jj Cooooooooooool

@bammerlaan Why would they "switch"? That seems catastrophically insane. Killing all the existing clients? Why would anyone do that?

You can implement more than one API -- especially a simple standard one like the ActivityPub API. Many of these projects have RSS feeds as well as ActivityPub, for example.

@evan Oh! I did not realise that, my apologies. I did not mean to suggest something insane—I just don't have the knowledge here.

But, so, yes, what does adding the ActivityPub API add, then, is my question? 🫣 There's no real need to answer, of course, I was just wondering. I can also try a bit harder to figure it out myself.

@evan what is flipboard ?

@Steel_Virgin https://google.com/search?q=flipboard

@bammerlaan ok. It's not insane, but it's a funny framing for the question.

@evan I don’t think any will… but if I were to choose one family, I would say @pixelfed / @loops

@evan

I know it's not an option, but I'm guessing "none of them", because what would be the point for them? They are all too focused on replicating their closed counterparts

@raphael One point is that there are a lot of cool clients that use the ActivityPub API, and their users ask to be able to use their accounts with those clients. That's what I'm hoping for, anyway!