# ActivityPub Support: Phase 1 RFC

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-support-phase-1-rfc/132624>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** rfc\
**Created:** [November 5, 2019, 8:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-support-phase-1-rfc/132624 "2019-11-05T08:38:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aschrijver/32/92004_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 6:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-support-phase-1-rfc/132624/40 "2020-12-30T06:22:13Z")

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> [@riking](#):
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> If anyone has a compelling use case, I’d like to hear it, but have not seen one presented yet. You’ve only talked about the technical possibilities and not about what product features this technology actually enables.

No, you are right. That’s what I was proposing we do (in [my TL;DR](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-support-phase-1-rfc/132624/30) with “elaborate the business case of ActivityPub adoption, starting with an ideation phase”).

Since this brainstorm proposal goes way beyond the topic of this thread, and also does not refer to a single feature or RFC, but more of a Vision, I’ve created a separate topic in #Community Building category:

> [@Community has no boundary: Discourse-as-a-Fabric - ideation & brainstorm](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-has-no-boundary-discourse-as-a-fabric-ideation-brainstorm/174578):
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> In [ActivityPub Support: Phase 1 RFC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-support-phase-1-rfc/132624) I outlined an ideation exercise to evaluate the business case for having ActivityPub support in Discourse, and think beyond a MVP as-if Discourse was built from the ground up with federation in mind: So hereby I will kick off the ideation with some brainstorming and without taking technical practicalities into account given current codebase. I realize there are many ins and outs and edge cases to all of this. This is a vision of what native federation suppor…

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