@lamp @Gargron please recall that AP is not only for Microblogs. places like Friendica exist. ActivityPub covers social media in different wrappers. Mastodon primarily covers the Twitter-like space, and i'm aware. however, some of the most widely shared Twitter posts out there are like
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i'm not of the belief that software can control people. they just find ways of working around it, if they're determined enough.