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Python library for ActivityPub. Uses Pydantic for AS2 object serialization.

Interesting discussion about informal alternatives to JSON-LD. Some of the most interesting material is in the comments (by Sporny).

"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.

List of user stories considered by the original AS2/SocialWG team (c. 2015).

"Mastodon link previews can lead to excessive requests at the same time, which is not Mastodon’s fault."

Compaints about Mastodon's (and the AP microblogging fediverse) link preview behavior and the performance problems it causes.

Uses Prometheus and Grafana. For non-container deployment.

"The short version of this is that I believe that Mastodon — more specifically federation and decentralization won't work out."

“SFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published (broadcast) using the ActivityPub protocols and can be subscribed to from any client that supports those standards”

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