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irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoWell, it’s a bit more than just using their identity to sign in, data is also stored on their PDS.
It’s entirely possible to make a server that accepts several different lexicons, wafrn plans on doing this for articles.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When a substantial fraction of users are actually using an appview with that trait, that will be great.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Sure, but its not a fault of the protocol itself. You could easily choose to discard
articleornoteobjects on ActivityPub.Zak@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
You can write software to filter on arbitrary criteria with ActivityPub, or email, or IRC, or virtually any other protocol. My point is that ATProto is designed to actively encourage it, and the flagship implementation does so. Subtle hints in interfaces have a big impact on how people, including developers use software.