#99 – Matthias Pfefferle on ActivityPub, WordPress and Decentralised Social Networks
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The ActivityPub Protocol and its Origins
In this chapter, they discuss the ActivityPub protocol and its origins. They mention that the protocol was defined by the W3C and was not updated since its initial publication. They also mention the involvement of the indie web community and the authors of a predecessor of the ActivityPub protocol. They explain that the specification is based on JSON-LD and is designed to be extensible. The current version of ActivityPub is heavily influenced by Mastodon, as Mastodon has added many extensions to the protocol.
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