My idea is this: I just want to send to a server like this a request from my domain name and username, but I don’t want to run a full instance. Is this technically possible?

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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      Let’s say I just sent a request from my non-existent server with my user id…

      Who or what is going to send this request if not some server that implements ActivityPub? This could be a Lemmy or Mastodon or Kbin instance… Or anything else that implements ActivityPub.

      …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)

      ActivityPub works via pushes. So there’s nothing to query. There HAS to be some server for it to send and store that data.

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        1 year ago

        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

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            1 year ago

            Yes, I now understand I need to have a server listening for the notifications being pushed to me