ActivityPub and the Web 3.0 Fediverse

If you’ve been keeping abreast of recent happenings on social media, you will likely be aware that there are a lot of people looking for alternatives to the site ex-pats often call the bird place. I like to call it the bird cage myself, but that’s just a personal preference. There are lots of alternatives to the bird place. Some older and more established than others, such as Reddit and Tumblr, some fresher and not so familiar, including Mastodon and other Fediverse systems.
Much of the Fediverse is run using ActivityPub. ActivityPub, previously ActivityPump, is an open source, decentralized social networking protocol oiginally created by Pump.io. It underpins the client-server system for so much of the newer and emerging online world: Friendica, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, Pleroma, and Mobilizon
Inspiration for this short post was parallel announcements from two of the old-school social media/networking tools, Tumblr and Flickr, that are going to enable AcivityPub on their systems and so bring themselves into the fediverse. If the original social media was Web 2.0, is the federalisation and opening up of the realm Web 3.0?

Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 24, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Social Media Source Type: blogs