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[–] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    @flamingos@feddit.uk As per the spec:

    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/

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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