ActivityPub Fediverse

Notes on ActivityPub and Fediverse from FediForum 2023-09-20

Location

Physical location in Fediverse data model – Day 2 – Space C

• Privacy
  • Primary concern
• Object – location property
  • https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-location
• Object – Type – Place
  • https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#places
• Object – Type – Activity
  • https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Arrive
  • https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Leave
  • https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Travel
• Schema.org – Place ( including geo-shape )
  • https://schema.org/Place
• Next Steps

Demos

• https://micro.blog – Allows multiple presences / sources
• feedseer.com – Popular content / re-sharable content interface
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
• gathi.io / events.friend.camp – Events Federated
• castling.club/objects/uuid
• Stephan Kochen -> github.com/stephank/castling.club
  • ActivitPub “Objects” as JSON-LD

Clients / Servers

• Ivory
• Vocata – Vocata is a vocabulary-agnostic ActivityPub server
• dokieli – dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.

Additional Notes

• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/guide-for-new-activitypub-implementers/479