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<!DOCTYPE html><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><title>ActivityPub Rocks!</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/main.css" /><link rel="alternate" title="ActivityPub news" type="application/atom+xml" href="/feed.xml" /></head><body><div class="main-wrapper"><header id="site-header"><a href="/"><img src="/static/images/ActivityPub-logo.svg" /></a></header><div class="site-main-content"><div><div class="pitch" style="text-align: justify;"><p>Don't you miss the days when the web really was the world's greatest decentralized network? Before everything got locked down into a handful of walled gardens? So do we.</p><div style="text-align: center"><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview"><img src="/static/images/ActivityPub-tutorial-image.png" alt="ActivityPub tutorial image" /></a></div><p>Enter <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/">ActivityPub</a>! ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/">ActivityStreams 2.0</a> data format. ActivityPub is an official W3C recommended standard published by the <a href="https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg">W3C Social Web Working Group</a>. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and subscribing to content.</p><p>Sounds exciting? Dive in!</p><div class="read-it"><p>==> <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/">Latest published version</a> <==</p><p>==> <a href="https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/">Latest editor's draft</a> <==</p></div><p>Or, are you a user looking for ActivityPub software to use? Check out this <a href="https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/pub/guide-for-activitypub-users">guide for ActivityPub users</a> (community edited)!</p></div><div class="for-implementers-box"><header>~= Hey, Implementers! =~</header><p>We're so stoked to have you implementing ActivityPub! To make sure ActivityPub implementations work together, we have:</p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/pub/guide-for-new-activitypub-implementers">Guide for new ActivityPub implementers</a></strong> -- Community edited and unofficial, but useful!</li><li><strong><a href="https://test.activitypub.dev/">A test suite:</a></strong> -- Make sure your application works right according to the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/">ActivityPub standard</a>.</li><li><strong><a href="/implementation-report/">Implementation reports:</a></strong> -- See the implementation coverage of applications which implemented ActivityPub during the standardization process.</li></ul><p>Looking to discuss implementing ActivityPub? You can join the <code>#social</code> IRC channel on <code>irc.w3.org</code>! See also <a href="https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/">SocialHub</a>, a community-run forum to discuss ActivityPub developments and ideas, and the <a href="https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG">Social CG</a>, a W3C Community Group to continue the work of advancing the federated social web... including ActivityPub!</p></div><div class="news-feed"><header>-=* ActivityPub News *=-</header><ul><li><a href="/news/overdue-site-updates.html">Some (long overdue) site updates</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Mon 04 January 2021</div></li><li><a href="/news/let-us-meet-on-socialhub.html">Let us meet on SocialHub!</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Thu 26 December 2019</div></li><li><a href="/news/activitypub-reaches-w3c-recommendation.html">ActivityPub reaches W3C Recommendation status! Everybody party!</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Tue 20 March 2018</div></li><li><a href="/news/activitypub-reaches-pr.html">ActivityPub reaches Proposed Recommendation status!</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Fri 08 December 2017</div></li><li><a href="/news/test-suite-running-and-impl-reports-page-up.html">Test suite up, implementation reports page up... let's get more reports in!</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Mon 06 November 2017</div></li><li><a href="/news/mastodon-ap-and-new-cr.html">Mastodon launches their ActivityPub support, and a new CR!</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Sun 10 September 2017</div></li><li><a href="/news/new-tutorial-new-logo.html">New tutorial, new logo!</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Tue 09 May 2017</div></li><li><a href="/news/submit-implementation-reports.html">Help submit implementation reports!</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Sun 09 April 2017</div></li><li><a href="/news/activitypub-reaches-cr.html">ActivityPub reaches Candidate Recommendation status!</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Thu 17 November 2016</div></li><li><a href="/news/activitypubrocks-launches.html">activitypub.rocks launches!</a><div class="news-feed-item-date">Mon 14 November 2016</div></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="footer"><a href="https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/activitypub.rocks">Site contents</a> dual licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International</a> and <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html">the GNU GPL, version 3 or any later version</a>. 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