this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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Their federation protocol was called ActivityTrack, which is different than ActivityPub that much of the Fediverse uses. There were some efforts to host relays that translate between the two protocols but some people got upset that their data is being accessed and processed in order to do that.
Ahh that fills in the gaps. Thanks for the explanation ๐ค