Source: thenewstack.io
Devs Are Excited by ActivityPub, Open Protocol for Mastodon
“It’s happening,” https://evanp.me/2022/11/11/its-happening/, whose https://thenewstack.io/challenges-of-creating-a-decentralized-open-source-twitter/ inspired the ActivityPub protocol on which Mastodon runs. “I have not been this excited about federated social networks since we published ActivityPub,” he wrote.
ActivityPub comprises https://activitypub.rocks/: a client-to-server protocol “for creating, updating and deleting content” and a server-to-server federation protocol “for delivering notifications and subscribing to content.”
It was September 2017, when Rochko https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 Mastodon v1.6, “the first Mastodon release which fully implements the ActivityPub protocol.”
As the person behind the Mastodon Twitter account https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1204791506143457281, “this is the building of a protocol that Twitter gets to control, like Google controls Android.”
ActivityPub comprises https://activitypub.rocks/: a client-to-server protocol “for creating, updating and deleting content” and a server-to-server federation protocol “for delivering notifications and subscribing to content.”
It was September 2017, when Rochko https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 Mastodon v1.6, “the first Mastodon release which fully implements the ActivityPub protocol.”
As the person behind the Mastodon Twitter account https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1204791506143457281, “this is the building of a protocol that Twitter gets to control, like Google controls Android.”
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