ActivityPub, Fediverse and the Future of social networks

<p>With the recent growth of Mastodon and Threads, you might have heard about ActivityPub, a relatively new networking protocol that has gathered momentum and is on its way to change how social networks work on the web. This article will give you an introduction to ActivityPub, how it’s used on the Fediverse, and some insights into how it might grow on the internet going ahead.</p> <h1>A Crash Course into ActivityPub</h1> <p>The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol, it defines how applications can represent and communicate classic social network interactions such as ‘Posting a Photo’ or ‘Following a person’, creating a standard with which decentralized social network servers and clients can communicate. ActivityPub is a real-time pub/sub protocol, based on HTTP and JSON.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@leonardotmenezes/activitypub-fediverse-and-the-future-of-social-networks-5be48719d71e"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>