ActivityPub was not invented in 2018, in fact it has a history of multiple protocol iterations since 2008 including OpenMicroBlogging and OStatus.
2010 another company named diaspora raised $200k to create another federated protocol. In 2018 #diaspora peaked at 1 Mio. users with 200 federated servers. Then the core dev decided to ignore #ActivityPub. That was the end.
Lets see how #Bluesky and #Nostr inventing the wheel again.
Jan /
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2023-04-27 20:28:58
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wss://relay.nostr.bandPublished at
2023-04-27 20:28:58Event JSON
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