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ActivityPub, the Fediverse, and You

June 21, 2023 Jared White & Ayush Newatia Episode 4
ActivityPub, the Fediverse, and You
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ActivityPub, the Fediverse, and You
Jun 21, 2023 Episode 4
Jared White & Ayush Newatia

Witness the rise of the Fediverse! In this episode we talk about early attempts at building decentralized social networking protocols for the web, the modern effort to craft a true W3C-published standard, challenges at scale with building out ActivityPub-based services, some of the new companies and infrastructure adopting ActivityPub, and what Meta’s upcoming entry to the Fediverse could mean for the future of decentralized social media. Note: we recorded this episode prior to the meltdown of Reddit, so we will not be covering the sudden rise of the "Threadiverse" with software such as Kbin and Lemmy. A topic for another day!

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush

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Witness the rise of the Fediverse! In this episode we talk about early attempts at building decentralized social networking protocols for the web, the modern effort to craft a true W3C-published standard, challenges at scale with building out ActivityPub-based services, some of the new companies and infrastructure adopting ActivityPub, and what Meta’s upcoming entry to the Fediverse could mean for the future of decentralized social media. Note: we recorded this episode prior to the meltdown of Reddit, so we will not be covering the sudden rise of the "Threadiverse" with software such as Kbin and Lemmy. A topic for another day!

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush

Show Notes:

Uh…Reddit meltdown!!!
Introduction
Say hello to ActivityPub
History Lesson #1: OpenSocial
History Lesson #2: StatusNet
History Lesson #3: Pump.io
History Lesson #4: W3C develops ActivityPub
Future scaling issues?
Single-user instances can be rought
Not all social experiences may interoperate in quite the same way
Software using ActivityPub today
Meta is joining the Fediverse ??!!
Donation or subscription-based instances to date
The urgent need for open social protocols
Commercial services used to be a lot more open
Wherefore Bluesky?
What about social networking fatigue…
Outro