ActivityPub is you. It was you all along. It was all of us

ActivityPub is when you send HTTP requests to actors' inboxes, but then you get confused letters back from the actors because they don't want to read computer things they just want to star in shakespeares

ActivityPub, it's like Spritely

ActivityPub, it's a protocol best understood when explained to you. Which is why I am doing this, and why you must do it to me. We have to know to keep this place running

ActivityPub was born fully formed from the head of @evan when he had a huge headache and he threw it into the sea and it walked out and there it was, ActivityPub

ActivityPub was when @tsyesika decided we needed the MediaGoblin Network. Later on Mastodon decided to also become a member of the MediaGoblin Network. And that's how we got ActivityPub

ActivityPub was when @erincandescent transcribed ancient scrolls onto loose leaf paper, scanned the paper into a scanner, ran it through OCR, and then said "the W3C should learn about this"

And that's how we got ActivityPub

ActivityPub was formed when @rhiaro emerged from the forest and held scribblings written upon a giant leaf and said "these are pretty good scribblings, but it would be even better if..." and then TORE the leaf in two, and then that's how we got the Client-to-Server and Server-to-Server protocols as two separate things

ActivityPub is a dating network for people who like open source, and also the gays who make animal noises

ActivityPub is a selfie machine for no-longer-eggs who have realized on shit, they like selfies now, what happened

ActivityPub, also known as "ActivityStreams", is just like a spoken language. Subject Predicate Object. It's pretty simple! Except we have Actor Activity Object, which are the same thing. And they're modeled in RDF, which is Subject Predicate Object.

So it's like language squared

ActivityPub is whatever you tell me it is

ActivityPub is where the AI enthusiasts are

Everyone here loves AI, highest ratio of AI enthusiasts you'll ever meet

All the content is AI and people will thank you for posting it

ActivityPub is where Gargamel finally eats the Smurfs. That'll teach them. That'll show them

Don't tell anyone but ActivityPub is alive I think? A being made of pure information

The fediverse: a never ending source of jokes about star trek. Join the fediverse. The federation. The fediverseration. Lol! It was made for this joke

ActivityPub was when we said FUCK there are TOO MANY PROTOCOLS, let's make one more protocol, and that'll be the last one

And then we did, and it was

ActivityPub is the protocol they make you go on in order to be eligible for HRT or SRS

You post on ActivityPub enough and they say, "okay, I guess you really do have gender dysphoria. you can do whatever you want"

ActivityPub: it's just like YOUR MOM