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To follow up on my #ActivityPub C2S post from a few days ago, I wrote a blog article on my thoughts about improving the C2S protocol and a description of some related experimentation I've been doing.

Steve Bate

ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward | Steve Bate

The ActivityPub Client-to-Server (C2S) protocol was envisioned as a cornerstone of the decentralized social web, along with the Server-to-Server (S...

Just for fun... try this #ActivityPub quiz to test your knowledge of the protocol. https://apquiz.stevebate.dev/

I've been playing with the experimental GitHub Copilot agent mode in vscode. I've asked it to start from an empty directory and create an #ActivityPub server in C++, directed only by prompts (no human coding). So far, it has created a C++ project and implemented WebFinger, resource persistence, resource retrieval and a decent set of unit tests. At this point, Mastodon is able to discover our actors. The AI is currently implementing Follow processing. I'm curious to learn how far I can push this.

I dream of the day when I'm not forced to choose between decentralization and a good user (or developer) experience. #ActivityPub (P.S. if there are replies to this post, you probably won't see most of them on your instance.)

The "Social Web" (#ActivityPub) Foundation's support from Meta and their links to Meta and X are even more dubious after Zuck's policy announcement. I think they should remove the links (and the associated accounts).

I submitted a draft FEP describing the Mastodon and LitePub/Pleroma #ActivityPub relay protocols. Comments and corrections are welcome. 📃.md

Does anybody know which #ActivityPub relay implementation is the most widely deployed?

Is the Fediverse only #ActivityPub? Here's an example where ChatGPT is smarter than some humans/Foundations. "No, the Fediverse is not limited to ActivityPub, though ActivityPub is one of the most widely used protocols within it. The Fediverse is a collection of interconnected social networks, blogs, and other platforms that use various decentralized protocols to communicate with each other." Nice! 👏