And why must I create a new ‘article’ to make a thread and not a post - which I think makes a new microblog.

I’m coming from a Mastodon POV, I run my own instance and have a pretty good idea (I think) about how federation works. The way ActivityPub is used is close enough to be familiar but also… not; very uncanny valley.

Additionally, if upvotes are favourites, what are downvotes? and how are they federated?

  • fross@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Thank you. So would I be right in saying that it’s a post that is published to my own ‘space’, and that while it’s public, it will only be promoted to people who directly follow me (and hence my space)?

    I mean it seems to be the exact same entity as a post to a community/subreddit/etc, just into a different context so not sure why it has a whole different name! This is I guess why I’m getting confused.