The cool thing about the Activitystreams Activity Vocab RFC is that it’s nearly completely useless for any practical implementation purpose …
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Starting to put together a hacky program to federate my blog by reading the rss feed to publish articles with #activitypub and then provide a known url to show any replies that I can drop onto the actual blog pages.
But that means creating a directory for the code, which means a name, 'activity_rss' sounds good but that's too long, I know...
mkdir arss
Fortunately my brain caught up with me before I actually hit enter.
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