@Gargron@mastodon.social
@bmann.ca@bsky.brid.gy @laurenshof@indieweb.social @quillmatiq@mastodon.social @mackuba@martianbase.net By that logic, Mastodon is not "an ActivityPub server", since it does not internally use AP objects for anything. By that logic nothing speaks ActivityPub "natively". Of course, in reality, it, like Mastodon, does speak ActivityPub natively. I can request a Threads actor and receive the JSON-LD directly from the Threads domain without any bridging services.
@knowtheory.net@bsky.brid.gy
Then why qualify/exclude bridging services?