LW admins instance-ban a Lemm.ee user for being underage

Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 3 days ago

LW admins instance-ban a Lemm.ee user for being underage

irelephant@calckey.world · 2 days ago

@flamingos@feddit.uk While the email analogy works well, activityPub is technically an api.

flamingos-cant@feddit.uk · 1 day ago

It’s a protocol, which I suppose you could argue is an API though that’d be a very liberal definition of API.

irelephant@calckey.world · 1 day ago

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

flamingos-cant@feddit.uk · 9 hours ago

Interesting. I’ve always considered an API a way to control some other software, while a protocol is about different software communicating. IDK, I just don’t consider APub’s S2S an API. Don’t know if that’d hold up in court, but that’s what I think.