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@smallcircles @julian It's ok for people to have conversations they want in the places they already are.

@hugh I should also say that my book for O'Reilly Media has really good coverage of the ActivityPub API.

https://evanp.me/activitypub-book

@hugh Mastodon already had an API when they adopted the ActivityPub protocol, and they did not want to use the ActivityPub API.

I think they made the mistake of thinking that a standard API had to replace their app-specific API, rather than being complimentary.

This is too bad; ActivityPub was designed to make clients innovative and interesting, and let servers concentrate on performance and reliability.

I think as we get more ActivityPub API clients, servers will start supporting the API.

@julian no they're not! You can always address a Collection in AP. That's what followers-only means!

@BrianJohnson I should have been clearer. FO replies to FO posts in Mastodon go to the replier's followers. This means that FO conversations are only visible to people who follow OP and replier. It makes FO much less useful for personal conversations. I would like my colleagues at Mastodon to fix this!

@BrianJohnson I'd definitely recommend looking over my book from O'Reilly Media, "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" for a good explanation on how replies work in ActivityPub.

https://evanp.me/activitypub-book/

A reply to a followers-only post should be addressed to the OP and the OP's followers, not to the replier's followers. #ActivityPub