Witness the rise of the Fediverse! In this episode we talk about early attempts at building decentralized social networking protocols for the web, the modern effort to craft a true W3C-published standard, challenges at scale with building out ActivityPub-based services, some of the new companies and infrastructure adopting ActivityPub, and what Meta’s upcoming entry to the Fediverse could mean for the future of decentralized social media. Note: we recorded this episode prior to the meltdown of Reddit, so we will not be covering the sudden rise of the "Threadiverse" with software such as Kbin and Lemmy. A topic for another day!

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush

Show Notes:

• Early social networking protocols:
  • OpenSocial
  • OStatus
  • Pump.io
• Finally: ActivityPub!
  • Uses Activity Streams under the hood
  • and JSON-LD
  • and WebFinger
• Mastodon: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
• Understanding ActivityPub
• Sample Python code
• Track Fediverse growth at FediDB