A look at ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social network protocol finalized in 2018 that is gaining prominence powering Twitter alternatives like Mastodon
@pierce from the Verge explains that ActivityPub is not just about Mastodon but a method to connect the larger social web. β¦ Johannes Ernst / @J12t@social.coop : β... there's a growing set of people who will tell you the future isn't #Mastodon but what it represents: a scaled #ActivityPub-based social platform.βΒ Indeed, nicely stated by The Verge.Β βΒ https://www.theverge.com/... Christine Lemmer-Webber / @cwebber@octodon.social : The Verge has a new article about ActivityPub.Β And it's pretty damn good: https://www.theverge.com/...Β There's a number of quotes from me in there.Β I enjoyed being interviewed for this: David Pierce was a very thoughtful interviewer. β¦ Greg Scallan / @greg@flipboard.social : Really good article and thoughts on the relationship of Activity Pub and the internetΒ βΒ https://www.theverge.com/...Β #fediverse #activitypub Stefan Bohacek / @stefan@stefanbohacek.online : βI was there in the early days of the web, and this whole thing with ActivityPub is as big a deal as HTML was back then.Β This is the single biggest opportunity I've seen for the web since the dawn of the web.β β¦ Jonathan Glick / @Jonathanglick@mstdn.social : I was blown away by the thoughtful details in @pierce's comprehensive overview of ActivityPub this morning: https://www.theverge.com/...Β There are great quotes throughout. β¦ Jesse / @broximar@masto.ai : The article we needed.Β Stellar work by @pierceΒ βΒ #Fediverse #ActivityPub #MastodonΒ βΒ https://www.theverge.com/... David Pierce / @pierce@mas.to : I wrote about ActivityPub, and why Elon Musk might have saved social networks by buying Twitter β just not at all in the way he meant to https://www.theverge.com/... Tweets: Justin Jackson / @mijustin : The decentralized web: βYou really cannot overstate how old an idea all this is.β https://www.theverge.com/... Frank Karlitschek / @fkarlitschek : The Verge has a nice article about ActivityPub and why it could finally led to a more federated internet https://www.theverge.com/... @anildash : βNow it's web all the way down.β https://www.theverge.com/... @shoq : Y'all must stop thinking of the Fediverse as one app called βMastodonβ. That's just the current focus, thanks to Elmo Von Twatter's reign of terror. ππ°ππΆ ππΆππ π£ππ― πΆπ ππ΅π² π»π²π π π―πΆπ΄ ππ΅πΆπ» π΄ in social networks - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... @verge : Can ActivityPub save the internet? https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer