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@helge ActivityPub requires application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#retrieving-objects
The shorter form application/activity+json is nicer, but media type is one of the things about which specification is not ambiguous, so I always use the required one.
application/activity+json is (or was) used by Mastodon, so of course everyone copy-pasted it into their projects.
Reading the word salad of the W3C ActivityPub specification, I'm convinced again that using Mastodon ActivityPub is the only logical choice. If people need convincing. I recommend to read the first sentence
The HTTP GET method may be dereferenced against an object's id property to retrieve the activity.
So if I use a HTTP GET to retrieve an object, W3C ActivityPub says I should get an activity back? And it's "the activity" so there is a canonical activity for the object. I believe calling W3C ActivityPub a document with Kafkaesque qualities is well deserved.
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