Open source social media: ActivityPub and Mastodon - a gentle introduction
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Don’t you miss the days when the web really was the world’s greatest decentralised network? Before everything got locked down into a handful of walled gardens?
Enter ActivityPub! ActivityPub is a decentralised 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.
Mastodon is one of the most feature rich implementations of ActivityPub - join us for a quick demo of what it’s capable of and what might come in the near future!
This event is free, but there will be a [completely optional] donation jar to cover the costs of the meetup group.