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so all the good stuff is running on #activitypub

does that make all the different apps just different frontends/views/UIs ?

(wanting to test out #pixelfed to help out people coming to fedi from insta, not wanting to make a new account)

#eli5
Mostly but not entirely

- Apps in fedi are usually a server (mastodon, gotosocial, pixelfed) and UI (mastodon mobile app, mammoth, elk web app) pair, the account lives on the server and you can swap UIs for the same app

- Activitypub has a lot of features but not every server uses all of them

- Activitypub is also vague about some features so there can be variations on the ‘same’ feature (because mastodon is the biggest app it acts as a defacto standard in a way that makes some people annoyed)

Doug Webb hat dies geteilt

or maybe you already knew this and wanted a simpler bit of propaganda? In which case sorry for the wall of text
no! This was helpful, thanks!

Would just be really cool to be able to switch UI's like skins on e.g. mediawiki/wikipedia. This should be technically possible somehow AFAICT