ActivityPub, the Fediverse, and You
Jun 21, 2023•44 min•Ep. 4
Episode description
Witness the rise of the Fediverse! In this episode we talk about early attempts at building decentralized social networking protocols for the web, the modern effort to craft a true W3C-published standard, challenges at scale with building out ActivityPub-based services, some of the new companies and infrastructure adopting ActivityPub, and what Meta’s upcoming entry to the Fediverse could mean for the future of decentralized social media. Note: we recorded this episode prior to the meltdown of Reddit, so we will not be covering the sudden rise of the "Threadiverse" with software such as Kbin and Lemmy. A topic for another day!
Hosted by Jared White & Ayush
Show Notes:
- Early social networking protocols:
- Finally: ActivityPub!
- Uses Activity Streams under the hood
- and JSON-LD
- and WebFinger
- Mastodon: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
- Understanding ActivityPub
- Sample Python code
- Track Fediverse growth at FediDB
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