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“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.

"I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spending the day at the park". [...]"

Provide definitions of "Fediverse" and "Instance".

"Threads.net has joined the Fediverse, and it is already blocking some servers. It uses a feature called Authorized fetch to ensure those servers cannot even fetch content from Threads. If your server is blocked, you can work around it by configuring a separate domain on your Rebased install to use only for fetching data."

"I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twi…"

"Specification documents and API documentation for the polyproto federated messaging protocol - GitHub - polyphony-chat/docs: Specification documents and API documentation for the polyproto federate..."

"The MIMI working group is chartered to define tools that messaging providers can
use to interoperate with one another. The W3C ActivityPub protocol is already widely used for several use cases that resemble the MIMI use case. This document examines whether ActivityPub might be a good baseline for providing the sort of interoperability that MIMI intends to achieve. "

"A blazingly fast drop-in replacement for the Mastodon streaming API server "

Data science study of Fediverse decentralization.