Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API - We Distribute
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Nonprofit organization Social Web Foundation is quietly focused on building tools, libraries, and prototypes to demonstrate what ActivityPub C2S could do.

The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here’s what they’re up to.

  • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    7·
    14 days ago

    Yeah, it’s not great. Unfortunately, there’s not a great way to describe this stuff without either leaning into abstract terms, or using oversimplifications.

    The short of it is: only half of the ActivityPub protocol really got adopted by most of the Fediverse: the stuff that lets servers talk to each other. The other half would allow for a lot of cool things to be built, with not everything being its own Fediverse server.

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      Surely they could’ve just included some reference to activitypub, e.g. “Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on ActivityPub Client-to-Server API”. that’s so much clearer