Difference between revisions of "ActivityPub"

Revision as of 18:32, 8 November 2022

About

ActivityPub (AP) is an internet federation protocol. It became the primary federation protocol for Mastodon starting with approximately version 2, which previously had been based on OStatus.

AP became a W3C recommendation on 2018-01-23, due in large part to the popularity of Mastodon^[1].

Software

These primarily use AP:

These support AP but primarily use another federation protocol:

Hubzilla is based on the Zot protocol

To check: Friendica might support AP.

Links

Reference

Wikipedia (article created 2017-08-18)
W3C
ActivityPub.rocks - sort of a publicity site

History

2022-11-08 Christine Lemmer-Webber on octodon.social: «A lot of people contributed to ActivityPub, but I'm going to give a breakdown of the authors and what they did:»

Commentary

2018-06-23 How to implement a basic ActivityPub server by Eugen Rochko
2017-08-11 A lot of folks have rightly questioned why I'm so hot and cold on ActivityPub.

Code

Kroeg, an ActivityPub server written in C#
landrok/ActivityPub: ActivityPub library in PHP

Footnotes

↑ 2018-01-23 toot by Christopher Lemmer Webber

[CLW1-1] 2018-01-23 toot by Christopher Lemmer Webber

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 * [https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ W3C]
 * [https://activitypub.rocks/ ActivityPub.rocks] - sort of a publicity site
+===History===
+* '''2022-11-08''' [https://octodon.social/@cwebber/109307961236854695 Christine Lemmer-Webber on octodon.social]: {{fmt/quote|A lot of people contributed to ActivityPub, but I'm going to give a breakdown of the authors and what they did:}}
 ===Commentary===
 * '''2018-06-23''' [https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/ How to implement a basic ActivityPub server] by [[Eugen Rochko]]