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diff --git a/docs/federation/glossary.md b/docs/federation/glossary.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3362d666a..000000000 --- a/docs/federation/glossary.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -# 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. |