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by lxgr 458 days ago
I'd consider the effort of migrating the entire ecosystem to a fundamentally different identity resolution mechanism somewhat of a barrier.
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mariusor 457 days ago
Allowing for extensions to the current ActivityPub/ActivityStreams vocabulary is one of the tenants of the specification. Nothing says everyone must implement everything.
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lxgr 451 days ago
I don't see how this could be done in a backwards compatible way.

How would incompatible servers know to trust a server foo.com to publish posts for an account bar.com? How would they know where to look for bar.com's posts when their users search for it?

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