Big-List-of-ActivityPub

The Big List of ActivityPub Projects!

• https://activitypub.rocks/ (official site)
• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ (official forum)
• https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ (specification)

W3 Quote: "The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol. 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 content."

Shlee Quote: "ActivityPub is the idea of splitting online services into tiny self hosted pieces - Turning privately owned services like twitter into thousands of little twitters, who are able to communicate with each other as you would expect - Giving power and control back to the many."

Alice is on Server A. Bob is on Server B. Alice sends a message to Bob. Server A sends the message to Server B. Bob gets notified of the message. ⭐

Alternatives to other Mainstream services

Microblogging (Tumblr)

• None :(

Microblogging (Twitter)

Mastodon-Based

Project	Description	Language	Stars	Last Commit
Mastodon	Mainstream reference design	Ruby
glitch-soc	A glitchy but lovable fork	Ruby
mastodo	Implementing useful features not implemented upstream	Ruby
Florence	Florence's fork of Mastodon	Ruby
Hometown	minimum code change for maximum user experience change	Ruby

Others

Project	Description	Language	Stars	Last Commit
Pleroma	High Performance with seperated BE/FE design	Elixir/Erlang	?	?
Misskey	"forever evolving, sophisticated microblogging platform" with lots of anime girls."	NodeJS
GoToSocial	GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang.	Go

WIP

Project	Description	Language	Stars	Last Commit
Nextcloud Social	Nextcloud becomes part of the federated social networks!	PHP
microblog.pub	Self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog.	Python
Kibou	Mastodon-compatible server	Rust	?	?
Rustodon	Mastodon-compatible server	Rust
Honk	Federated honk conveyance	Go	?	?

Video Streaming (YouTube)

Stable

Project	Description	Language	Stars	Last Commit
PeerTube	Video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular.	NodeJS

Image Sharing (Instagram)

Project	Description	Language	Stars	Last Commit
pixelfed	Free and ethical photo sharing platform	PHP
anfora	WIP photo gallery social network	Python

Blogging

Project	Description	Language	Stars	Last Commit
writefreely	federated blogging engine	GO
Plume	federated blogging engine	Rust

Music (Soundcloud)

Project	Description	Language	Stars	Last Commit
Funkwhale	self-hosted tribute to Grooveshark.com	NodeJS	NA	NA

WIP

• Soundstorm - Ruby "Federated Social Music Platform."
• Reel2Bits - Python "Soundcloud-like but simple, easy and KISS (and ActivityPub)"

Link Sharing (Reddit)

WIP

• Prismo - Ruby/NodeJS "Federated link aggregation powered by ActivityPub."
• Littr.me - Go "Link aggregator inspired by reddit"
• Lemmy - Rust "federated alternative to reddit"
• Anancus - Go "self-hosted and federated social link aggregation."

Event Management

WIP

• MobiliZon - Elixir "federated organization and mobilization platform. Gather people with a convivial, ethical, and emancipating tool."

Public Facing Services

• https://search.social/ - Search engine for the public posts and profiles of the Fediverse.

Other ActivityPub enabled projects

• Pump.io - NodeJS "Social network"
• Distbin - NodeJS "Post bin with distributed social features."
• Hubzilla - PHP "powerful platform for creating interconnected websites."
• Dokieli - NodeJS "decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions."
• Aardwolf - Rust "Powering connected social communities"
• MeowCat2 - Python "federated blogging and social networking platform"
• socialhome - Python "federated personal profile"
• Lamia - Python "Distributed blogging, polls, and status updates powered by activitypub, python, the gay agenda, and snake women."
• Pubcast - Go "experimental ActivityPub based podcasting platform"
• WordPress ActivityPub - PHP "Customizable WordPress plugin that makes per-user ActivityPub streams, and receives comments via ActivityPub"
• pterotype - PHP "WordPress plugin that expands your audience by giving your site an ActivityPub stream"

Frameworks & Servers

• Little Boxes - Python "both database and server agnostic."
• PubGate - Python "Lightweight (Gotta Go Fast) ActivityPub federator."
• Clovis - Scala "totally a hobby project to learn new stuff at the moment so don't expect much"
• go-fed - Go "ActivityStreams & ActivityPub in golang, oh my! "
• Express ActivityPub - NodeJS "Reference implementation of an ActivityPub server using Express.js"
• pylodon - Python "Flask-based ActivityPub server"
• CommonsPub - Elixir "WIP on a generic ActivityPub server: http://CommonsPub.org"
• Kroeg - Rust "really flexible federated social media!"

Developer Tools

• FediDB - PHP "ActivityPub Tools for Developers - This tool is intended to help diagnose AP bugs across implementations."

Bridges

• Bridgy Fed - connects IndieWeb sites with federated social networks.
• ActivityPub actor - importer from centralized non-ActivityPub social networks to ActivityPub capable ones.
• RSS to ActivityPub Converter - NodeJS - Convert any RSS feed to an ActivityPub actor that can be followed on ActivityPub-compliant social networks like Mastodon

Blog Posts

• The “Worse Is Better” Approach to Federated Social Networking - by Kaniini (lead developers of Pleroma).
• Welcome to Thundertoot - by myself (Aus.Social Admin)