Thank you! That makes sense.

It definitely feels a bit like HTML 2.0 right now. I’m hoping some of this stuff gets standardized into the activitypub spec because it’s going to have to support not just microblogging, video sharing, photo feeds and link aggregators, but it’s also going to have to support any new social network concepts that pop up. It doesnt work if different networks interpret activity inconsistently. Still waiting for our HTML 5 moment.

Also, I’m noticing lemmy posts are being shared as urls back to lemmy instead of the content of the posts being shared in a “note” format.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-note

I’m still learning how lemmy works. Would love someone to explain why this is.