ActivityPub projects

I know others have written about this wait more in depth that I could ever do but I want to list some ActivityPub projects that I have played with.

First if you don’t know ActivityPub is a protocol for decentralized social networks and it is an oficial W3C open standard.

Second, there is Mastodon which is the most popular ActivityPub project today but I won’t talk about it because I am assuming everyone knows what it is.

But perhaps you haven’t heard about PeerTube which is a video sharing platform that supports ActivityPub, which means that there are many instances of PeerTube around and one instance can list videos published in another instance therefore if you visit one instance you will be able to watch videos that have been publish in others instances.

Two other interesting projects are lemmy and kbin that are social news type of platforms. You can post news and links and up vote them.

If you like share book review or read them, then you can join Bookwyrm. I’ve been looking into it was a way to track my reading but it is also great to discover new books to read.

Now one very interesting project is the WriteFreely, it is basically blogging with ActivityPub support, but what also makes it interesting is that one instance can have multi-users, so if you want run an instance for a community or a group of friends, everyone who joins it will get their on blog that can be followed by any other ActivityPub platform such as Mastodon.

Last but not least I want to talk about Pixelfed which is a ActivityPub based photo sharing platform. As any other ActivityPub project anyone in one instance can follow someone on another. This is what makes all this project worth check it out, they places where you can find your own community or start one.

In the future I will write about a range of other projects that like Mastodon are microblogging platforms, there are many of them and they are different for each other even though they are all about microblogging.