Social Web Bookmarks

Discussion about data portability in the social web (ActivityPub and beyond).

Federated single-user microblogging software with a Mastodon API.

"A service-type ActivityPub actor that will re-broadcast anything sent to it to anyone who subscribes to it."

FeatherPub is an implementation of ActivityPub aimed at solving several problems with the Recommendation.

"Occasionally there are online discussions about using schema.org vocabularies with ActivityPub (AP) and Activity Streams 2.0 (AS2). There are many ways to do this, but this article will explore one approach..."

"[The SWF] even goes as far as wringing out the Fediverse’s own historical context as a multiprotocol polyglot network, by equating the Fediverse to just the ActivityPub protocol. Hey, look everybody, it’s Evan, the bold creator of The Social Web / Fediverse, with his one protocol that powers the entire thing!"

From the primary author of the ActivityPub spec:
"I am anticipating a crash/collapse of the fediverse in its current form at a not too distant future; hopefully we'll have more answers ready by then, but this is a multi-year project)"

Compared ActivityPub, Nostr and ATProto

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

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