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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).

Describes how poll votes are represented by Mastodon using ActivityPub.

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

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.

"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..."

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).

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