Let’s say we have lemmy instances A, B, C.

alice from A makes a post “Hello, world” to B. What happens? How is it processed on servers A, B, C and how do users from A, B, C receive her post?

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    12 days ago

    I actually don’t know, you’d need to ask someone privy to design decisions made with ActivityPub, like Prodromou or Lemmer-Webber. It’s definitely not to avoid making it part of the protocol, because it already is (see the link in the last comment).

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Thanks—I meant “formal” as in “formal grammar”, not that it wasn’t described in the published protocol. As in, there’s nothing in the protocol’s explicit form that distinguishes between this implied meaning and a real extra recipient—so it simplifies the parsing but adds an extra post-parsing step.

      • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        What about JSON-LD makes it so they have to include the “this is public” declaration in the to field instead of having an as:public property on the object? (I don’t know a whole lot about JSON-LD or RDF more broadly)