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"At long last, the Activity Streams 2.0 specification is nearing W3C Candidate Recommendation stage. Hopefully the CR will post sometime…"

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."

Jaseur is an ActivityPub server implementation in C++ developed using AI agent technology.

Describes how poll votes are represented by Mastodon using ActivityPub.

Discussion of how Mastodon adapts ActivityPub to represent Polls (using the AP Question activity).

"Most issues with ActivityPub stem from one critical flaw: much of its behaviour is undefined. The core types and activities allow interactions that make little practical sense."

A version control system for RDF datasets. The second article in the series has an interesting discussion of "speech acts" which are sometimes claimed to be the inspiration for AS2.

"What if we were all just a bunch of allowlist-only servers talking to each other, in the process creating an entirely new network? A pr..."