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GitHub repo for LitePub

LitePub is a suite of protocols which provide a federated social network. They constitute various profiles of the ActivityPub specification. It is intended that LitePub implementations provide compatibility with ActivityPub, but there are some core behavioral differences.

Brings together two game-changing technologies, ActivityPub and Solid Pods, and empowers developers to create truly decentralized applications.

ActivityPub/Mastodon sequence diagrams for some of the common federation behaviors.

ActivityPub test suite discussions in TPAC 2023 break meeting. Highlight: Meta offering funding to support testing efforts.

W3C community group discussions and demonstration related to ActivityPub test suites.

Follow-up by Dennis Shubert on earlier ActivityPub criticisms. (2019)

(or: Why can't the decentralized social web people just get along?)
Lemmer-Webber's response to criticisms of ActivityPub specification.

PHD thesis of Amy Guy, one of the ActivityPub specification authors. See Chapter 5 for a discussion of the social web specification process, experiences, and thoughts.

By Christine Lemmer-Webber. Discussion of the ActivityPub specification process: history and challenges they had to overcome.