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ActivityPub

ActivityPub is a protocol and open standard for decentralized social networking. It provides a client-to-server (C2S) API for creating and modifying content, as well as a federated server-to-server (S2S) protocol for delivering notifications and content to other servers. ActivityPub is the defining standard of the Fediverse, a decentralised social…

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Abbreviation
AP
Based on
ActivityStreams, JSON-LD
Developers
Christine Lemmer-Webber · Jessica Tallon · Erin Shepherd · Amy Guy · Evan Prodromou
Influenced
AT Protocol
Introduction
January 23, 2018; 8 years ago (2018-01-23)
Purpose
Decentralized social networking

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ActivityPub

Nodes53
Edges52
Triples73
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037736
Components1

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ActivityPub

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related to Adoption · 14
ActivityPub → Elon Musk, European Economic Area, Flipboard, Following, GNU, Mastodon, Meta Platforms' Threads, OStatus, Pleroma, The, Threads, Tumblr, Twitter, Various
related to Design · 10
ActivityPub → Activities, ActivityStreams, Actors, Article, Every, In, JSON-LD, Objects, POST, The
related to Uncertain future implementations · 8
ActivityPub → Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, Despite, Flickr, Git, GitLab, The, Tumblr, WordPress
related to Project status · 7
ActivityPub → ActivityPub Conf, ActivityStreams, Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund, In, SocialCG, The SocialCG, Triages
related to Missing content and data · 6
ActivityPub → Discourse, However, Lemmy, Mastodon, This, Wordpress
Developers · 5
ActivityPub → Amy Guy, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Erin Shepherd, Evan Prodromou, Jessica Tallon
related to Accidental denial-of-service attacks · 5
ActivityPub → An, DDOS, Mastodon's, OpenGraph, Poorly
related to Account migration · 3
ActivityPub → Fediverse Enhancement Proposal, Move, While
is a · 2
ActivityPub → defining standard of the Fediverse, protocol and open standard for decentralized social networking
Abbreviation · 1
ActivityPub → AP

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protocol social data ostatus software used standard content decentralized implementations networking world mastodon new example using web also user actor

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ActivityPubAbbreviationAP1.00infobox
ActivityPubBased onActivityStreams, JSON-LD1.00infobox
ActivityPubDevelopersChristine Lemmer-Webber1.00infobox
ActivityPubDevelopersJessica Tallon1.00infobox
ActivityPubDevelopersErin Shepherd1.00infobox
ActivityPubDevelopersAmy Guy1.00infobox
ActivityPubDevelopersEvan Prodromou1.00infobox
ActivityPubInfluencedAT Protocol1.00infobox
ActivityPubIntroductionJanuary 23, 2018; 8 years ago (2018-01-23)1.00infobox
ActivityPubPurposeDecentralized social networking1.00infobox
ActivityPubWebsiteactivitypub.rocks1.00infobox
ActivityPubis aprotocol and open standard for decentralized social networking0.90text
ActivityPubis adefining standard of the Fediverse0.90text

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