Audience
Users and developers interested in a decentralized social networking protocol
About ActivityPub
Don't you miss the days when the web really was the world's greatest decentralized network? Before everything got locked down into a handful of walled gardens? So do we.
Enter ActivityPub! ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. ActivityPub is an official W3C recommended standard published by the W3C Social Web Working Group. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and subscribing to content.
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Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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ActivityPub
Founded: 2018
activitypub.rocks/
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