ActivityPub

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ActivityPub is a system that allows lots of websites to all work together to become a distributed social network. This is what powers Mastodon, for example.

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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. Enter ActivityPub! ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.

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Getting started as an ActivityPub user

The quickest way to get started as an ActivityPub user is probably to join a Mastodon server. It does not particularly matter which server you join, they are all (mostly) connected.

Adding your WordPress blog to the ActivityPub network

Your WordPress blog can join the ActivityPub network. There’s a great plugin that does all that hard work for you. It is available for both self-hosted (wordpress.org) and hosted (wordpress.com) blogs.

To find ActivityPub blogs, there is a list here.

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