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diff --git a/docs/federation/glossary.md b/docs/federation/glossary.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3362d666a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/federation/glossary.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# Glossary + +Some commonly-used terms in discussions of federation, and their meanings. + +### `ActivityPub` + +A decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams data format. See [here](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/). + +GoToSocial uses the ActivityPub protocol to communicate between GtS servers, and with other federated servers like Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. + +### `ActivityStreams` + +A model/data format for representing potential and completed activities using JSON. See [here](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/). + +GoToSocial uses the ActivityStreams data model to 'speak' ActivityPub with other servers. + +### `Actor` + +An actor is an ActivityStreams object that is capable of performing some Activity like following, liking, creating a post, reblogging, etc. See [here](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#actors). + +In GoToSocial, each account/user is an actor. + +### `Dereference` + +To 'dereference' a post or a profile means to make an HTTP call to the server that hosts that post or profile, in order to obtain its ActivityStreams representation. + +GoToSocial 'dereferences' posts and profiles on remote servers, in order to convert them to models that GoToSocial can understand and work with. |