Prompt 1: ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol that handles inbox and outbox operations to facilitate communication between different users and servers. In ActivityPub, each user has an inbox and an outbox. The outbox is where a user's activities (e.g., posts, likes, shares) are stored and published, while the inbox is where a user receives activities from others.
When a user performs an activity, such as writing a post, it is created in their outbox. The user's server then sends that activity to the inboxes of their followers or specified recipients. Upon receiving an activity in the inbox, the recipient's server processes it, such as displaying the post to the recipient's followers or storing it as a like or share.
Prompt 2: When you write a post on an ActivityPub platform like Mastodon, the flow sequence regarding inbox and outbox is as follows:
- You create a post on Mastodon.
- The post is added to your outbox.
- Your server sends the post as an ActivityPub activity to the inboxes of your followers or specified recipients.
- The recipients' servers receive the post in their inboxes.
- The recipients' servers process the post and display it to the recipients or their followers accordingly.
Prompt 3: Here's a JSON-LD example illustrating a Step-By guide with schema:step and schema:position attributes:
json{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "HowTo",
"name": "ActivityPub Inbox and Outbox Flow",
"step": [
{
"@type": "HowToStep",
"position": 1,
"text": "Create a post on the ActivityPub platform (e.g., Mastodon)."
},
{
"@type": "HowToStep",
"position": 2,
"text": "The post is added to your outbox."
},
{
"@type": "HowToStep",
"position": 3,
"text": "Your server sends the post as an ActivityPub activity to the inboxes of your followers or specified recipients."
},
{
"@type": "HowToStep",
"position": 4,
"text": "The recipients' servers receive the post in their inboxes."
},
{
"@type": "HowToStep",
"position": 5,
"text": "The recipients' servers process the post and display it to the recipients or their followers accordingly."
}
]
}