And why must I create a new ‘article’ to make a thread and not a post - which I think makes a new microblog.

I’m coming from a Mastodon POV, I run my own instance and have a pretty good idea (I think) about how federation works. The way ActivityPub is used is close enough to be familiar but also… not; very uncanny valley.

Additionally, if upvotes are favourites, what are downvotes? and how are they federated?

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    Thank you, this makes sense! I mean, it also makes me think this becomes exceptionally noisy as the boosts may grow at a low exponential rate as the number of users expands, but I will watch it and see how it works here :)

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      It is noisy, but it’s also the only way to really make sure content propagates content the network.