HTTP content negotiation was a mistake. The perceived wins are always overshadowed by all the new problems. I’ve long thought a slimmed down ActivityPub without content negotiation and without JSON-LD would be so much nicer. Sorry folks! Controversial hot take but it’s true. 🤪

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@manton ha, I go farther and think all of the web tech in ActivityPub makes it kind of unavoidably fat.

Slim it down without content negotiation... and keep going :)

It's far too heavy of a protocol for what you get.

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