IRC is actually somewhat federated, as one network can consist of multiple servers hosted by different people.

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Short answer: Yes, this is stupid.

I assume if threads users follow fediverse users the content makes its way to their feed as normal.

No. https://woof.group/@aphyr/113596102626961803

You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, but the accounts aren’t searchable and their posts won’t show in feeds

what’s the point then

They can be URNs (like magnet:), as shown above.

It’s not true, all ActivityPub IDs are URIs

ActivityPub spec allows content-addressed IDs, just nobody implemented them and now it’s too late.

https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org

There’s Usenet, no memes but also sort of dead and suffering from spam

Friendica, Smithereen or Hubzilla

ActivityPub acts like two-way RSS

Why do you want sub-accounts, if you can have as many regular accounts as you want?

Websites can be bridged to ActivityPub with https://fed.brid.gy

Oh, can you pm me (@cyber:sysrq.in)? I can’t get mautrix-telegram bridge working, it doesn’t respond to invites from rooms on other servers.

Expect AP updates to be rare, just like other protocols

I planned to make a Mastodon client for KDE and name it “Kulupu”. But it was stalled and Tokodon appeared earlier.

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does traffic for boosts go via the original instance

That way. You can’t trust a third-party instance to proxy content, every server has to get its own copy.

It’s always IP + DNS + Deep Packet Inspection. To access blocked websites, you have to use some sort of proxying.