blog! “How updates work in ActivityPub / Mastodon”I didn't realise this, so I'm documenting it to stop other people making the same silly mistake that I did. Messages in ActivityPub have two distinct ID strings. Here's a (truncated) view of what hap...

[edent@mastodon.social]

blog! “How updates work in ActivityPub / Mastodon”

I didn't realise this, so I'm documenting it to stop other people making the same silly mistake that I did. Messages in ActivityPub have two distinct ID strings. Here's a (truncated) view of what happens when I send a new message on Mastodon: "id": "https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/1234567890/activity", "ty…

Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/how-updates-work-in-activitypub-mastodon/
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[julian]

@[email protected] interesting... this might be related to why my updates don't propagate to Mastodon, might be the activity id needs to be unique.

[jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu]

@julian @Terence Eden At this point, one might want to distinguish between how something works according to the ActivityPub standard and how Mastodon has implemented it, if at all.

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