awesome-activitypub

In case people don't know what "ActivityPub" is (there are a few of you out there!), it's an open spec for social media sites to interoperate in a federated manner. Most of the software that speaks the protocol is open source[0] and there has been a growing interest in it lately for some reason. If you were to look at the wider ecosystem, it would be fair to say it's a genie that won't be placed back inside its bottle. More info here: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub [0] but there is no rule that says this needs to be the case.

Yes there are a variety of implementations - perhaps you were searching "Mastodon" (the name of a single implementation) instead of "ActivityPub" (the name of the protocol)? https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub#services should get you started!

the ActivityPub protocol is PeerTube's special sauce, allowing interoperability with many other projects in the ecosystem. https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub#services edit: a comment about PeerTube itself, be sure to check out probably its most interesting installation (TILvids), by which interesting means you'll be watching a lot of their content for the edutainment: https://tilvids.com/

Media organizations (I'm looking directly at you nytimes.com) should be standing up their own Mastodon instances for the benefit of their writers and staff. ditto for anyone else in the public sphere currently publishing status updates via walled garden platforms (elected officials, agencies, educational institutions, et cetera) edit: or, more generically, any implementation of ActivityPub will do. or write your own! https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub

ActivityPub the protocol is quite promising and there are other implementations besides Mastodon: https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub What will really get the ball rolling will be organizations such as governments, educational institutions, public libraries, or news agencies that create federated social infrastructure for their own membership.