Social Web Bookmarks

Discussion of an early form of AS 2 and using microservices with it (2014, prior to the ActivityPub spec).

A historical free software manifesto with participation from the social web folks.

"A career-long journey to build online social networks that cannot be controlled by a single company, culminating with the ActivityPub standard."

“Fediblock is a constant point of contention on the fediverse. And the tag has taken a life of its own.”

(2019) "If you're looking for social media options where the user has more control, you'll find a range of options to explore in the Fediverse, including t..."

"And before I get into why Mastodon (as is) will fail, I want dissect all of the things Mastodon does right, and why it’s such an important stepping stone in the decentralized computing movement in general."

"Behind the complicated history of two supernetworks, and their potential future."

"This specification details a model for representing potential and completed activities using the JSON format."
A draft AS2 specification prior to the W3C Social WG. This one uses JSON, whereas the final AS2 specification uses JSON-LD.

Original Activity Streams (and related) submission by opensocial.org to the W3C SocialWG. This is interesting from an historical perspective.

Links to historical versions of the AS2 JSON-LD context document.