@_elena This is why I'll _almost_ never understand the excitement around the #ATmosphere . It's designed with FOSS aesthetics and private interest profiteering in mind.
Not to say that #ActivityPub doesn't have some pretty big problems, it does. Ones that #Bluesky does a much better job with. But with ActivityPub? It's not designed or built around a private platform first. It was built to be an open ecosystem from its inception.
Bluesky was built to be open as a side quest, not a driving mission.
@_elena thank you for sharing the article.
The same considerations should be honestly made for the #ActivityPub fediverse as well. So we may address them in time. Not all is well. I am writing a blog post on open standards divergence and increasing unattractiveness of an ecosystem that hems itself into a straitjacket of narrow application areas, by the protocol decay we allow to fester. Combined with inadequate work methods to reconcile the tech debt that this incurs. We must go "back to standards" or have an ecosystem based on enabling technologies that are increasingly unattractive to adopt.
La Roadmap 2026 de l’extension ActivityPub pour WordPress
La roadmap de mon extension préférée de WordPress est disponible.https://blog.florianbrochard.fr/la-roadmap-2026-de-lextension-activitypub-pour-wordpress/
RE: https://mas.to/@Aubreader/116330793703168577
This article is a must read.
An excerpt: “Why would anyone fund an Atmosphere project if #Bluesky, with $100 million in the bank, might ship a competing feature at any moment? Why would a founder bet their career on this ecosystem? The presentation didn't just hurt Graze. It made the entire ecosystem look unfundable.”
Why do I keep bringing up this topic?
Because #ATproto is often put in the same category as #ActivityPub (“open protocols yay”) but I strongly disagree with that stance
Miror quod #Fediversum tam lente crescit, immo fere stat, quantum intellego. Et adhuc nullam alternam viam pro Facebookianis gregibus fecimus.
Putō id fieri quia nulla pecunia nec lucrum in re est. Sed nihil impedit quominus quis applicaciones mercatorias in protocolo #ActivityPub aedificet.
I think if there's one thing I'd say to #ActivityPub developers, it's this: it seems like it's going to be easier to just parse Activity Streams 2.0 data as plain JSON, but it's not. You have to keep track of too many variations. Use a JSON-LD library instead. For JavaScript, try activitystrea.ms:
https://github.com/jasnell/activitystrea.ms
Not direct suggestions, but lists..
https://delightful.coding.social
When my blog was on Wordpress still, I was using the #activitypub plugin so that it was directly on Mastodon. After I left WP for #eleventy that was a hit I took. I looked for simple lightweight solutions I could use, hopefully something like a small PHP solution. At the time, there were none.
Today I see this:
https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling/
What I'm not exactly sure is if I drop this in the same directory as my #11ty blog will it automatically federate or can it be coerced to automatically federate? #BridgyFed works but is at best an imperfect kludge. I'd love to make ActivityPub a first class citizen of the blog. I guess I'll play around on a non-production system to see what it does.
Kleines Fediverse-Wunder des Abends: Ich folge jemandem auf Mastodon, der auf einer völlig anderen Instanz lebt – und es funktioniert einfach. Kein Algorithmus hat entschieden, ob wir das "verdienen". Kein Konzern hat mitgeschnitten. Zwei Server, ein Protokoll, null Drama. 🪄
So muss das eigentlich immer sein.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Dezentral
The #CFP for the Fediverse & Social Web track at COSCUP 2026 (Taipei, Aug 8–9) is now open! If you're working on #ActivityPub, the #fediverse, or anything in the open social web space, we'd love to hear from you. The deadline is May 9. #COSCUP is free to attend.
👉 https://hackers.pub/@fedidevkr/2026/fediverse-social-web-track-at-coscup-2026-cfp
(Boosts appreciated!)
Again looking at running my own #Mastodon instance and seeing a ton of abandoned projects for lightweight, single-user #ActivityPub servers. Are there options that are actively maintained and ready for use? I've run #Pleroma before but don't actually need a web frontend. Happy to @phanpy and that's it. Suggestions, anyone?