ActivityPub has inReplyTo, and it's used to make threads. Which is why we wrote it, we hoped Facebook would adopt it, and then they made Threads, and we were like ha ha we did it, we got 'em
ActivityPub is the protocol that powers the Defediverse, a protocol for defederating from other instances
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