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There’s no spec for private messages at all, there’s no standard to implement. See also my explanation/rant as the other reply I made to the parent comment.

I recently did a library implementing pretty much the whole ActivityPub protocol and let me tell you one thing I’ve learned: ActivityPub is a half-assed unfinished mess.

It has so little constraints that pretty much anything is valid. You’d think that there was some logic at the core, but not really.

For example, there’s the Like activity, the name is pretty self-explanatory. But it’s valid to like anything. You want to like another Like activity? Why not! So you can like a like that likes a like…

Obviously, no real project implements such nonsense. But because almost everything is valid and up to interpretation of the implementer, there really is no single ActivityPub to implement that gets you running smoothly. There are many de-facto standards with various levels of compatibility with each other. Sending private messages is one such thing that many projects chose to implement in different ways.

Fun fact: Without implementing the HTTP Signatures spec, your app will not be able to send any activities to any software, because ActivityPub allows anyone to impersonate anyone, which obviously didn’t really fly with people developing actual software that uses it.

In conclusion, pure ActivityPub is an unusable mess in its pure form that literally won’t be able to communicate with other software implementing “ActivityPub,” so everyone is kind of implementing a similar slice/hybrid of ActivityPub and other protocols, but not exactly the same ActivityPub.

Yep, it was, but the spec still exists and few projects borrowed the ChatMessage type from it.

They’re not, they’re a different kind of object on the ActivityPub level. Lemmy and some others use the unofficial extension called Litepub which includes a custom ChatMessage type, while Mastodon and others have chosen to repurpose the Note object (used for posts and comments on Mastodon and comments on Lemmy) with limited visibility and weird mention rules.

It doesn’t support port forwarding, it’s not the best VPN for torrenting, your downloading will be limited.

I personally use ProtonVPN which does have port forwarding.

Sure, sure. I think it was obvious what I’m talking about, but yeah, you got me.

Well, as I said in my first comment, that no one cares today doesn’t mean no one will care tomorrow. If it’s illegal, you should take precautions.

VPNs are a barrier, true. But prison bars or having to pay millions to huge corporations are even bigger barriers. Sure, it might not happen to everyone and it probably won’t happen to most. If you want to gamble with your life, go ahead, but please, don’t tell others some form of protection isn’t needed.

If you don’t want to or can’t pay, don’t torrent. There are other, safer ways to get content.

Are there any countries where torrenting is legal? AFAIK, all countries ban sharing of copyrighted content. For example where I live it’s legal to download stuff, but not sharing it with others. You can’t really avoid sharing with torrents.

Always use a VPN. With torrents you actively share the file which is illegal pretty much anywhere.

Even if no one cares today, someone might tomorrow.

Ah, didn’t know, that must be new(ish).

In your bio on old profile set a link to your new profile, that’s the only way currently. Then set up a script that migrates your subscription list to the new account.

I mean, it’s the same, except you don’t get a total number across all your posts.

The hive mind is here as well.