@basil @neil I think the issue is that not all activities are understood by all clients.

mastodon has no concept of a downvote, lemmy does.

forgejo has repos, with lots of collections / deltas that mastodon can only partially understand.

threads and groups roll up different in bonfire

mobilizon's calendar things aren't quite the same UI as others

there shouldn't need to be one server that can validate every activity,

but each individual app should speak a federated dialect

it does not need to be the same dialect.

@basil @neil

Having lived through the user-agent-sniffing years ("Oh, you're using IE? We'll give you content X. You're using Netscape? We'll give you content Y. You're using some user-agent we don't recognize? We'll give you an error, or assume you're a mobile device.") and this would annoy me to no end.

@basil @neil YES. This is the way.