For me, you can’t separate those two things. I want an online identity. I don’t want to switch servers because of whatever reason and have to import bookmarks. I want my app to keep track of my subscriptions and just give me my replies/messages. I don’t want to care whether I’m on lemmy.ml or whatever
Yes, I now understand I need to have a server listening for the notifications being pushed to me
Who or what is going to send this request if not some server that implements ActivityPub?
Me, directly
ActivityPub works via pushes. So there’s nothing to query. There HAS to be some server for it to send and store that data.
Great, this is what I wanted to find out, so there has to be something listening for pushes
Let’s say I just sent a request from my non-existent server with my user id, and just every time I wanted to check whether I got replies I would query the other server (which a Lemmy server would do to get notifications about replies or upvotes)
If I subscribe to !asklemmy@lemmy.ml I could just… check !asklemmy@lemmy.ml without actually loading any data to a server, I could just literally load it from lemmy.ml
I COULD host an instance, but why bother to store that data if I’m only going to be using it myself?
Why does there have to be an instance there? Who checks that?
No, it’s also for your system to use locked versions of deps, so if you git clone you get a
flakes.lockas well with all the versions. When you install from a git repo you get the same system again