CynthesisToday, 11 months ago

@jupiter_rowland

Thank you for taking the time to help with understanding. You provide a lot of examples which should hit pretty much everyone's current knowledge basis.

If I may try to translate to my knowledge basis. I'm very familiar with #BGP, #TCP/IP and have a deeper than basic use knowledge of #DNS, #SMTP and #HTTPS. Basically, I understand the concept of the Open Systems Interconnection Model (OSI Model) as described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

In the wiki link, this diagram describes the interoperability idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OSI-model-Communication.svg

At what layer does #ActivityPub operate? Same as #HTTPS? In a similar way? #ActivityPub handles both the server-to-server and server-to-client parts according to: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ .

So #Mastodon is yet another piece of software that implements parts of the overall #ActivityPub protocol (but not the full extent of the protocol) while attempting to provide the function that non-tech users have come to expect of the bird application?

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