Building ActivityPub
activitypub.ghost.org
Ghost is federating over ActivityPub to become part of the world’s largest publishing network

Not sure if this has already been posted since it’s kind of old news (early 2024), but I think that’s exciting. I’m currently looking into blog software with nice webgui and I might wait for this to become real. Looking at the announcement page, they seem to take it seriously and there’s continuous merged PRs since April until recently regarding AP on their GitHub.

  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I look at it like this: ActivityPub is to RSS as a GUI is to a CLI.

    Meaning, you could already use the tools (RSS or the CLI) that are there to do the task, but someone has created something (protocol, AP or application, GUI) to make that task easier. In the case of RSS and AP, that task is generally getting content in front of the user. With RSS I have to go hunt down RSS feeds and whatnot, but with AP I just interact with stuff and wait for the people I interact with to interact with stuff, and then I get content.

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
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      46 minutes ago

      Honest question as I finally dusted back off my interest in RSS. With RSS I need to add the URL to my client and it periodically checks back to show me when new content is posted, does ActivityPub handle this differently? Like how does it know which sources to use without having to hunt down their AP feed and add it to a client?

      I could totally be missing something super simple or implied.