Re: AP for developers in one sentence

"Let servers talk to each other and thus allow users of different 
services to talk to each other"?

(I'd like to skip "social apps", e.g. Wordpress is not really a "social 
app" to me even if it has a social feature. But other people may disagree.)

On 22/09/2025 21:29, Andy Piper wrote:
> “Create, interact and follow across and between social apps, via 
> standards-based publish and subscribe”.
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> On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 at 20:23, Johannes Ernst 
> <johannes.ernst@dazzlelabs.net> wrote:
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>     If you met a reasonably competent developer, but who had never
>     heard of ActivityPub or the broader space, and you had one (not
>     too long) sentence to convey to them was ActivityPub is and what
>     it might be good for, what would you say?
>
>     Context: After the basic make-it-current updates for
>     activitypub.rocks (see milestones here:
>     https://github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/milestones), our first
>     audience is developers. So if a developer comes across
>     activitypub.rocks, what’s the first sentence that it should say so
>     they decide it might be interesting enough to spend another 20
>     seconds to read more sentences than just the first?
>
>     My best take right now:
>
>     “If you like to use social web site A, and your friend likes to
>     use social web site B, ActivityPub allows you to interact
>     socially, follow, reply etc although you use different websites.”
>
>     Please propose something better! :-)
>
>     Thanks,
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>
>     Johannes.
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>
>     Johannes Ernst
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