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Comment by jauntywundrkind | Hacker News Reader

Mastodon has it's own API. It basically offers a very limited ActivityPub API too, but it's own API is very different.

And it's a very slim ActivityPub inplementation. For example, I don't think you can do basic things like get an individual post in ActivityPub. This should be easy simple json-ld to get but it's just 404. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#retrieving-objects

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Mastodon for sure supports fetching individual posts over ActivityPub. For example:

    curl -L -H 'accept: application/activity+json' 'https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/18614983'

It does have a bunch of stuff that isn't federated though, such as Like counts/collections. And of course it only implements the server-to-server (S2S) part of AP, not the client-to-server (C2S) part.

Mastodon. o. not a.

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