Social Web Bookmarks

A reflection on the last 15 years of the web 3.0 giant global graph of social networks, especially the development of the ActivityPub..."

Video with discussion of ActivityPub history.

(or: Why can't the decentralized social web people just get along?)
Lemmer-Webber's response to criticisms of ActivityPub specification.

By Christine Lemmer-Webber. Discussion of the ActivityPub specification process: history and challenges they had to overcome.

(2019) By Cory Slep. An appeal to the AP community to work together to address the gaps in the specification.

An old but interesting pre-specification document describing a variety of potential use cases for ActivityStreams 2.0.

Activity Streams 1.0 home page. Interesting for historical purposes. (Tagged as #activitystreams2)

The Federated SNS (social network service/system) timeline is a simple list of its history. To put it another way, it is a record of how the Fediverse came to be. This is only one part of the larger Federated Social Web. For this list, we defined SNS as services meant for posting updates (microblogging, macro-blogging, blogging), uploading images, leaving comments, re-sharing, and liking; or simply, the Fediverse.

This is an interesting document from a historical perspective. A lot changed between this first public draft and the final specification.

This is the second in a series of posts where the Robert W. Gehls shares his notes on his readings of the minutes of the Social Web Working Group. The first one is here. Future posts to come. In this section, He covers the development of ActivityStreams 2.0, the first goal of the SocialWG charter.