{"id":12251,"date":"2025-03-26T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=12251"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:01:25","slug":"federated-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/federated-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Federated Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mike Masnik of Techdirt points me at <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/25\/a-world-without-caesars-how-the-atproto-community-is-rebuilding-the-web-to-return-power-to-the-people\/\">Sarah Perez&#8217;s article on a social media world without Caesars<\/a>. , reporting on the founding AT Protocol conference, which is definitely not a Bluesky conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if the persistent pushing of Bluesky over Mastodon has anything to do with the fact that AT Protocol is US owned while Mastodon is a W3C standard, forkable but curated in Europe.  (Is this still true?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/25\/a-world-without-caesars-how-the-atproto-community-is-rebuilding-the-web-to-return-power-to-the-people\/\">A-world-without-caesars-how-the-atproto-community-is-rebuilding-the-web-to-return-power-to-the-people<\/a> by Sarah Perez<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abstract27.com\/activitypub-on-ghost-the-open-source-protocol-that-democratises-social-networking\/#:~:text=ActivityPub%20is%20an%20open%2Dsource,bigger%20than%20any%20single%20company.\">What is ActivityPub and how does it work?<\/a> at abstract 27<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/13\/wordpress-com-owner-automattic-acquires-an-activitypub-plugin-so-blogs-can-join-the-fediverse\/#:~:text=Automattic%2C%20the%20company%20behind%20WordPress,to%20Automattic%20CEO%20Matt%20Mullenweg.\">WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plug-in so blogs can join the Fediverse<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/activitypub\/#:~:text=ActivityPub%20defines%20some%20terms%20in,context%20in%20their%20object%20definitions.\"> Activity Pub W3C standard<\/a> at w3.org<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mastodon\/mastodon\">Mastodon&#8217;s source code<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fediversereport.com\/a-conceptual-model-of-atproto-and-activitypub\/\">https:\/\/fediversereport.com\/a-conceptual-model-of-atproto-and-activitypub\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Masnik of Techdirt points me at Sarah Perez&#8217;s article on a social media world without Caesars. , reporting on the founding AT Protocol conference, which is definitely not a Bluesky conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[111,3,1],"tags":[2164,2163,622,2154,911],"class_list":["post-12251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-activitypub","tag-atprotocol","tag-distributed-systems","tag-socialmedia","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/114227909638796930","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/screens-leifchristophgottwald-unsplash-w1080.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12256,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions\/12256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}