ActivityPub

follow ActivityPub is the new standard for connecting social networks together on the social web. This open, decentralized social networking protocol defines an API for sharing activities to a social network and a procedure that servers use to distribute those activities to a subscriber’s feed. With this book, you’ll learn how to assemble ActivityPub-enabled clients for making new kinds of social apps on top of existing networks and build ActivityPub servers that create new human or automated accounts on the social web.

https://semichaschaver.com/2025/04/03/etjp46oedt With those skills under your belt, you can explore other applications of this publish-subscribe technology: content management systems, internet of things, and enterprise automation. With hands-on examples and in-depth knowledge from Evan Prodromou, one of the authors of the protocol, this is the ActivityPub handbook that every social software hacker needs.

• Learn what the social web is and what ActivityPub does
• Represent social network data in the Activity Streams 2.0 format
• Write a simple ActivityPub client and server
• Extend ActivityPub’s functionality with new types
• Find in-depth details about the more obscure ActivityPub data structures

https://www.anonpr.net/o18msni Evan Prodromou is a coauthor of the ActivityPub protocol and the Activity Streams 2.0 data format.