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 eggs

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

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

ActivityPub: now best understood through my new pseudonotation: {Activity from:actor to:addressees object:{Object}}

ActivityPub is where you air your kinks out in the open. It's fine just put it out there. Be free

ActivityPub is a protocol for "tankies" to get mad at "anti-tankies", and vice versa. But they both get mad at the "fash"

ActivityPub is a protocol for fueling @cwebber's Cassanda Complex

Here's one to explain things to the KIDS:

ActivityPub is Usenet Done Right