Re: "ActivityPub at one glance" diagram

It Is Just an introductory slide  showing what i suppose was the First goal when AP had been proposed.

Il 23 dicembre 2025 23:18:01 CET, Darius Kazemi <darius.kazemi@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>Okay, but I do not think that we can explain ActivityPub *in its entirety *in
>one glance. I think that far more useful than something technically
>complete and accurate but overwhelming is a diagram that is simplified but
>gets the point across and perhaps has a note that says "simplified, please
>see diagram X for the full map".
>
>The problem with
>
>https://activitypub.rocks/static/images/ActivityPub-tutorial-image.png
>
>is that it is correct but not very useful. The problem with a diagram that
>shows you can post straight to outboxes bypassing federation is that it
>doesn't describe ActivityPub in use today by 99% of message volume.
>
>Perhaps what Johannes is looking for is a diagram of "How ActivityPub can
>work in a federation context". Federation is the hardest part to get across
>to people, and one of the issues is that federation itself is not specified
>by ActivityPub, or indeed ANYWHERE. ActivityPub is a spec that supports
>federation, and federation is left as an exercise to the reader.
>
>-Darius
>
>On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM a <a@trwnh.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM a <a@trwnh.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > to show what happens in the "rest of the world". The complete "AP at
>> > one glance" would therefore be:
>> >
>> > Actor --> POST --> outbox --> POST --> inbox --> GET --> actor
>> >
>> > A lazy rendition of this using the existing activitypub.rocks graphic
>> > as a base can be found indefinitely at
>> >
>> https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/771/056/837/692/305/original/e5fb9d66d668fec0.png
>> > for visual aid.
>>
>> I would like to amend this slightly. The fuller picture would actually
>> be 2 different flows:
>>
>> actor --> POST --> outbox --> POST --> inbox <-- GET <-- actor
>> actor --> POST --> outbox <-- GET <-- actor
>>
>> The first one is the push model, and the second one is the pull model.
>> Note that the push model revolves around the inbox, and the pull model
>> revolves around the outbox.
>>
>> Another lazy rendition of a visual aid can be found indefinitely at
>>
>> https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/771/149/975/931/569/original/3eb69315559461b2.png
>> with the colors/directions fixed and demonstrating both flows.
>>
>>