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Still no standalone ActivityPub client anywhere. Strange.

• dsr_ 4y ago
  ... what does that mean? It sounds like you are saying "there are no standalone SMTP clients", after which we would all start listing software that speaks SMTP.
  • remram 4y ago
    So point out the clients that speak ActivityPub? There is a lot of software that speaks the ActivityPub server-server protocol, but most client apps use the Mastodon client API or custom protocols, not ActivityPub client-server.
  • esjeon 4y ago
    SMTP is strictly a server-to-server protocol. POP3 and IMAP are the protocols for accessing mailboxes remotely.
    • cdot2 4y ago
      You can send mail via smtp connection from client to server
      • esjeon 4y ago
        Woopsie, totally forgot about that part. It seems like I got too used to webmails.
• mariusor 4y ago
  That is mostly because there are very few servers that support the client to server portion of the ActivityPub specification. I am working on such a server, and I have built a custom client for it, but it's just a web application.
• deleted 4y ago
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• vidarh 4y ago
  Likely because ActivityPub alone provides just a subset of what a typical social media client needs, and requires far more logic in the client than using the Mastodon API. E.g. if you use those APIs you don't need to care about webfinger and can treat the local server as the only API endpoint. There are few compelling reason for client writers to talk ActivityPub to the servers unless/until there's a far larger number of servers which does not support the Mastodon API
• rakoo 4y ago
  AndStatus definitely speaks it