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`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
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Arnold Schrijver replied to the below article:

Liberating clients from servers, without throwing out baby with bathwater

Danyl Strype @strypey@socialhub.activitypub.rocks

"With targeted FEPs and pioneering implementations like Flowz, the Fediverse can break free of proprietary client APIs and monolithic client/server implementations and empower a new wave of social web innovation."

@stevebate

https://www.stevebate.net/activitypub-client-api-a-way-forward/

This is such a valuable insight! There are 2 extremes in decentralised social app dev, one where an app is just a dumb terminal for a particular server, and then the inverse, pure P2P apps with no server. But there is a middle ground. Apps can be a focus of UX development, and access different servers as needed to provide functionality that's impractical (if not impossible) to do with pure P2P networks.

Arnold Schrijver @aschrijver@socialhub.activitypub.rocks

7/17/2025, 10:03:18 PM

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Yea. Magic is in having well-defined API's that allow seamless exploration of our social web.

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/object/e250b1cd9c7223d65ce0e0e14391cf2a on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)