ActivityPub

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<ref name=CLW1 />.

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Links

Reference

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

Commentary

• 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#

Footnotes

<references> <ref name=CLW1>2018-01-23 toot by Christopher Lemmer Webber</ref> </references>