A Creator of ActivityPub on What’s Next for the Fediverse

Evan Prodromou has been working on decentralized social media for nearly 15 years now, having created an open source Twitter alternative called Identi.ca in 2008. That service morphed a couple of times and eventually became pump.io — which was the genesis for ActivityPub, the core fediverse protocol of 2022. In an interview with The New … Read more

Lighting a Bonfire Under Social Media: Devs and ActivityPub

As developers begin to shift away from post-Musk Twitter and contemplate building apps on federated social media protocols, many are asking themselves: what can I do with ActivityPub, the key open protocol of the fediverse? ActivityPub enables different applications to federate content between themselves, which both enables and encourages the open web. The specification from … Read more