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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by athenot on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:36PM (#16505951)
I just stumbled on W3's ActivityPub and hope this takes off. If we can combine the independance of publishing and a way to link stuff together, it might go a long way to reduce our dependency on big platforms.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by tomcam on Friday March 02, 2018 @05:26PM (#16506336)
>a way to link stuff together

Maybe... hyperlinks via <a> tags?

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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by vvillena on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:14PM (#16506935)
Last I saw, hyperlinks didn't "provide 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".

Are there any practical applications of this protocol on the wild, or on paper? This server-to-server communication reminds me of email in a good way. It could open a door for websites to talk to each other without Facebook or Twitter chaperoning the whole thing.

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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by NDICjQ2zlm5vJ6S on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:04PM (#16507161)
Federated microblogging: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

Distributed video streaming: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by chc on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:12PM (#16507196)
I don't think Mastodon has implemented ActivityPub yet, does it?
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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by detaro on Sunday March 04, 2018 @06:12AM (#16514262)
Mastodon has switched to ActivityPub already
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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by tudorw on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:14PM (#16506637)
yes, me too, WebSub (previously PubSubHubbub) https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/ and Scuttlebutt https://github.com/dominictarr/scuttlebutt are in this space too with slightly different aims but a common cause of bringing ownership over content into the users control.
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