ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward | Steve Bate
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The ActivityPub Client-to-Server (C2S) protocol was envisioned as a cornerstone of the decentralized social web, along with the Server-to-Server (S2S) protocol. Standardized by the W3C in 2018, C2S defines how user-facing applications, such as mobile apps or web clients, and bots should interact with social servers using Activity Streams 2.0 and JSON-LD. In theory, it ... Read more
  • Raphael@communick.newsEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Vocata has some great ideas, but it’s mostly abandonware. If someone here likes working with Python and is interested in a vision of the Fediverse as a true “Social/Semantic Web” instead of the current hodge-podge of poorly integrated software, take a look at Django ActivityPub Toolkit.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, it was kind of an obscure project to begin with. Still, it struck me as an excellent way to prototype federated services that all hooked into a singular identity.

      Hopefully, it inspires future work.

      • Raphael@communick.newsEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Yeah, before I started working on DAT I spent a good amount of time trying to make Vocata work. If the performance of the rdf store was minimally acceptable, and if I had managed to efficiently query for collections, I would see if I could revive it.