I think the "only" thing about AP so far that's been interesting for me is that it has a concept of "closed" messages (aka things that won't appear on the timeline without authentication). That's something that's been thought about in the IndieWeb world (https://indieweb.org/private_posts) and tbh if a implementation comes out before I get some basic AP support into #Koype, I might not bother with AP
private posts - IndieWeb

@jalcine authentication is one thing but direct delivery of messages is another