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Decentralized social networking protocol
ActivityPub
is an
open
,
decentralized
social networking
protocol
based on
Pump.io
's
ActivityPump
protocol.
[1]
It provides a
client/server
API
for creating, updating, and deleting content, as well as a
federated
server-to-server
API
for delivering notifications and content.
[2]
In 2023/2024 ActivityPub received over 150,000 Euros from Germany's
Sovereign Tech Fund
.
[3]
Project status
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ActivityPub is a standard for the Internet in the Social Web Networking Group of the
World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C). The standard was co-authored by
Evan Prodromou
,
[4]
creator of StatusNet (now known as
GNU social
). At an earlier stage, the name of the protocol was "ActivityPump", but it was felt that ActivityPub better indicated the cross-publishing purpose of the protocol. It is the most widely supported standard (by some margin) in the
Fediverse
.
[
citation needed
]
In January 2018, the W3C published the ActivityPub standard as a Recommendation.
[2]
Lead author
Christine Lemmer-Webber
notes that the team predominantly identified as queer, which led to features that help users and administrators protect against "undesired interaction." She also notes that the team authoring ActivityPub had no corporate participation.
[5]
The W3C Social Community Group previously organized a yearly free conference called
ActivityPub Conf
about the future of ActivityPub.
[6]
[7]
Former
Diaspora
community manager Sean Tilley wrote an article that suggests ActivityPub protocols may eventually provide a way to federate Internet platforms.
[8]
Triages are held regularly to review issues pertaining to the ActivityPub and ActivityStreams 2.0 specifications as part of the W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group.
[9]
Software using ActivityPub
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Expected or announced future implementations
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See also
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References
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a
b
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.
- ^
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.
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.
- ^
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- ^
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.
- ^
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.
- ^
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- ^
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
- ^
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
- ^
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
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2023
.
- ^
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.
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- ^
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
- ^
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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from the original on July 24, 2023
. Retrieved
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.
- ^
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.
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.
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from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
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.
- ^
"GoToSocial"
.
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.
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from the original on January 1, 2023
. Retrieved
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2022
.
- ^
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.
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.
Archived
from the original on July 22, 2023
. Retrieved
July 25,
2023
.
- ^
immers-space.
"Decentralized social groups for ActivityPub"
.
GitHub
.
Archived
from the original on November 22, 2022
. Retrieved
November 22,
2022
.
- ^
"Release First major release · immers-space/guppe"
.
GitHub
.
Archived
from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
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2023
.
- ^
"humungus - honk"
.
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.
Archived
from the original on July 24, 2023
. Retrieved
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2023
.
- ^
"honk 0.1"
.
flak.tedunangst.com
.
Archived
from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
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2023
.
- ^
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.
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.
Archived
from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
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2023
.
- ^
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. 21 October 2016. Archived from
the original
on October 21, 2016.
- ^
"Iceshrimp"
.
- ^
"Inventaire toot"
.
mamot.fr
. December 7, 2021.
Archived
from the original on August 28, 2022
. Retrieved
October 17,
2022
.
- ^
"kbin.pub - Fediverse of content"
.
kbin.pub
.
Archived
from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
July 24,
2023
.
- ^
"Fedidevs - Kbin"
.
fedidevs.org
. Retrieved
2023-11-26
.
- ^
"Lemmy - ActivityPub for link aggregation"
.
nlnet.nl
. Retrieved
2023-06-05
.
- ^
"Libervia progress note 2022-W45"
.
salut-a-toi.org
. November 2022.
- ^
"lotide"
.
Archived
from the original on October 31, 2020
. Retrieved
October 29,
2020
.
- ^
"Release v0.1.1 · lotide-org/lotide"
.
GitHub
.
Archived
from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
July 25,
2023
.
- ^
a
b
"Server-Server - ActivityPub implementation reports"
. Retrieved
2019-01-02
.
- ^
"Mastodon Users update post"
.
GitHub
. 25 February 2024.
Archived
from the original on February 25, 2024
. Retrieved
February 25,
2024
.
- ^
"Mbin - a fork of kbin - community-focused"
.
fedidb.org/software/mbin
.
Archived
from the original on February 28, 2024
. Retrieved
February 28,
2024
.
- ^
"ActivityPub for your blog"
.
Micro.blog
. 14 November 2018
. Retrieved
2022-12-23
.
- ^
"Mastodon and ActivityPub"
.
Micro.blog
. 8 March 2021
. Retrieved
2022-12-23
.
- ^
"microblog.pub: A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog"
.
sr.ht
.
Archived
from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
July 25,
2023
.
- ^
"Release 2.0.0-rc.1 · tsileo/microblog.pub"
.
GitHub
.
Archived
from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
July 25,
2023
.
- ^
Wallen, Jack (22 January 2019).
"Nextcloud Social is a promising collaborative feature"
.
Tech Republic
. Retrieved
3 July
2020
.
- ^
Poortvliet, Jos (2022-10-28).
"No need to trust Musk. We go federated with Nextcloud Social!"
.
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. Retrieved
2022-11-10
.
- ^
Poortvliet, Jos (10 December 2018).
"Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse"
.
Nextcloud
.
Archived
from the original on December 10, 2018
. Retrieved
December 10,
2018
.
- ^
"Owncast v0.0.11"
. March 5, 2022.
Archived
from the original on March 5, 2022
. Retrieved
March 5,
2022
.
- ^
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"Eight photo-centric social sites that are not Instagram"
.
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.
- ^
"Pleroma ? a lightweight fediverse server"
.
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.
Archived
from the original on January 20, 2023
. Retrieved
January 22,
2023
.
- ^
"Pleroma's First Release! 0.9.9"
.
pleroma.social
.
Archived
from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
July 25,
2023
.
- ^
joinplu.me.
"Plume"
.
Archived
from the original on May 10, 2019
. Retrieved
May 2,
2019
.
- ^
"Release 0.2.0 (Alpha 1) · Plume-org/Plume"
.
GitHub
.
Archived
from the original on July 25, 2023
. Retrieved
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2023
.
- ^
"postmarks"
.
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.
Archived
from the original on September 15, 2023
. Retrieved
October 7,
2023
.
- ^
"Postmarks"
.
GitHub
.
Archived
from the original on September 23, 2023
. Retrieved
October 7,
2023
.
- ^
"Sharkey"
.
joinsharkey.org
. Retrieved
2024-01-11
.
- ^
"soapbox.pub"
.
gitlab.com
.
Archived
from the original on February 7, 2024
. Retrieved
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2024
.
- ^
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.
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.
Archived
from the original on December 23, 2023
. Retrieved
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2024
.
- ^
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.
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.
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.
- ^
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
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.
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. Archived from
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. Retrieved
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.
- ^
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.
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. Retrieved
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2023
.
- ^
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
- ^
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.
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- ^
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
- ^
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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