The Social Web by naming itself thus reduces social web to fediverse and then to AP only.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240725080148/https://fossacademic.tech/2024/02/11/Move-Slowy-Preview.html [[Move Slowly and Build Bridges by Robert Gehl]] is a forthcoming book on 'Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Ethical Social Media'. This post gives summaries per chapter of the draft. Ch1 focuses on Xodus after Musk only. Odd, there are many examples where costs of leaving socmed platforms played a role, which may well be more informative than just n=1. Ch 2 on AP as protocol Ch 3 CoC as a social layer on networked tech (no regard here it seems for the fact that human networks exist outside of tech and span multiple tech platforms simultaneously, and themselves have social norms that guid behaviour regardless whether codified in CoC or expressed in federation choices) Ch 4 on blocking and defederation as a needed safety tool. Socially I think the default might need to be the other way around, federating is the choice, defed the default, as it is how we do it socially irl. We are not unwelcoming to newcomers in a group but we are wary. Ch 5. Who pays for the fediverse infra. Short answer is we all do/many of us do. I pay my own instance, and also contribute hours to the governance of the largest Dutch instance. Good point about people forgetting there are other bizz models for digital media than what centralised adtech kraken do. Ch 6. on eco impact of socmed, and need of awareness what running this stuff costs ecologically. Seems to then pivot to how degrowth and solarpunk people using fediverse tech to interact, which is not the same thing. (It says mitigate, but compared to what, X? ) Ch 7. Threads , or the corp reaction to a growing fediverse. Conclusion, this is where the ethics will be discussed finally.

Forthcoming w Oxford Univ Press. Not sure this is for me, reads like a snapshot with a limited time window in which it might be informative. Perhaps of interest for [[Stichting ActivityClub Bestuur Hoofdnote]].

https://web.archive.org/web/20240616135517/https://alex.kirk.at/2024/06/13/your-wordpress-as-your-personal-mastodon-instance/

Use WP as your activitypub instance. If the mentioned plugins require xmlrpc or depend on JetPack then not feasible for me. Might try a set-up like this.

Not sure what to make of this, a combination of Solid Pods and AP, with Solid being the data storage. Meaningless refs to data ownership (you don't own your data on Fedi, you've spread it to 100s of servers around the globe with each message. You don't even have control over the database you use in your client, unless self-hosted. You can move, without your messages.) It's just that nobody afayk mines the stuff for adtech. And data ownership doesn't legally exist in most parts of the world. So what is the purpose of Solid here, if you store recipes and ephemeral socmed messages in it? Just that it's there so you can skip having to build the database part of an AP server / client combo? So that everyone can run their personal instance with something that can also do other things? It doesn't say but that would be a potential step up (assuming people know how to run a solid pod that is).

https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/733546273183006720/youve-mentioned-in-the-past-that-adding-some

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/

Good job Matthias!

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/14/wordpress-blogs-can-now-be-followed-in-the-fediverse-including-mastodon/

Vgl [[Build protocols not platforms 20190821202019]] I agree. Kissane says use protocols in new ways for new tools, starting from the premise of actually social software.

https://tantek.com/2023/110/t2/beyond-mastodon-indieweb-own-domain

For newer non-surveillance capitalist alternatives to Goodreads:

• Bookrastinating
• LibraryThing
• The StoryGraph

```ruby require 'json' require 'http'

post '/inbox' do signature_header = request.headers['Signature'].split(',').map do |pair| pair.split('=').map do |value| value.gsub(/\A"/, '').gsub(/"\z/, '') # "foo" -> foo end end.to_h

key_id = signature_header['keyId'] headers = signature_header['headers'] signature = Base64.decode64(signature_header['signature'])

actor = JSON.parse(HTTP.get(key_id).to_s) key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(actor['publicKey']['publicKeyPem'])

comparison_string = headers.split(' ').map do |signed_header_name| if signed_header_name == '(request-target)' '(request-target): post /inbox' else "#{signed_header_name}: #{request.headers[signed_header_name.capitalize]}" end end

if key.verify(OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new, signature, comparison_string) request.body.rewind INBOX << request.body.read [200, 'OK'] else [401, 'Request signature could not be verified'] end end ```

https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub

An RSS to ActivityPub converter.

https://docs.microblog.pub/

Kev is equating integration with any service to attempts to increase conversation around a post. That is often true but not always. E.g. I'm looking at AP to increase what own words I am sharing. E.g. AP for limited audience postings, and e.g. RSS for a subset of posting that are unlisted for the general public on my site.

Valid point Kev makes here. A site should do only what its author needs it to do. I want interaction visible on my site, though I probably will cut down on the facepiles.

Architecture can make UX suck.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/

Example of how ActivityPub standards don't work in practice, in part because Mastodon is an 800 pound gorilla which actively flauts or adds their own "standards".

https://aeracode.org/2022/11/14/takahe-new-server/

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html

Basic instructions for using your own website to point to your Mastodon account (on another server).

https://thenewstack.io/devs-are-excited-by-activitypub-open-protocol-for-mastodon/

Good general overview of ActivityPub and Mastodon.

Describes how to move from a Mastodon account to micro.blog. also provides details about "move" activity in ActivityPub.

https://www.manton.org/2022/12/02/moving-from-mastodon.html

Details for moving from one instance to another.

https://webfinger.net/

https://blog.erinshepherd.net/2022/11/a-better-moderation-system-is-possible-for-the-social-web/

This lack of spam is very likely indicative of the difficulty of implementing an AP-based platform.

https://github.com/aaronpk/Nautilus

https://g13g.blog/2021/03/16/get-your-blog-posts-on-mastodon/

I should write some documentation up for this.

https://github.com/mwt/apfollow/

Code and buttons for creating ActivityPub Follow me interface

https://odd.blog/2022/11/06/how-to-add-your-blog-to-mastodon/

https://tomfinley.co/wordpress-fediverse/

Interesting for me to explore and understand too. How does AP compare to micropub which can be used for similar purposes? As far as I can tell it is much more heavyweight

A valid activity in Activity Streams is using one of each Actors, Types and Objects. Me Arrives at Place, Me Travels to Place, Me Announce Event etc. It's all JSON

Immers Space is a immersive web / metaverse initiative. It is federated, using ActivityPub. The AP implementation uses the Arrive/Leave/Travel and Places Object Types for virtual destinations. Vgl [[ActivityPub voor Check-ins 20221109095516]]

https://bridge.birb.space/

This instance is a Twitter to ActivityPub bridge.