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🎉 == projects that have successfully federated with this protocol

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Note: Tools with open protocol issue (not yet implemented), not fully open sourced code, no documentation at all, or alpha state with development inactive for several months, not added for now.

List of projects that have an ActivityPub implementation or are committed to one

Note: This list began in issue https://gitlab.com/fediverse/fediverse.gitlab.io/issues/8. Most of these projects include both a back-end and a web client, but this list can also include projects that are only a back-end. Projects that are only a web app, for use with an existing back-end, will go on the client watchlist .

Social networks, Microblog Apps

Blog and Publishing Apps

  • ✒️ Diffu - an attempt at a federated Medium, aimed at hosting long form articles that easily and neatly embed other kinds of content from any fediverse platform (microblog posts, PixelFed images, PeerTube videos etc). Proposed by a French company called Befox, who attempted to crowdfund development (inspired perhaps by the success or PeerTube and Mobilizon), but didn't hit their target.

  • ✔️ Dokie.li

  • ✔️ FediBlog - fully customisable blog engine

  • ✔️ Huzbilla - federated CMS with a range of groupware tools available as plug-ins. Support AP with the pubcrawl plug-in.

  • Known

  • ✒️ NoteIn - alpha stage

  • picopub - created by the developer of Fontina as a "tiny, Mastodon-compatible blog"

  • ✔️ Plume

  • ✔️ Read.as - a reading app

  • ✔️ WordPress - an AP plug-in by @pfefferle@mastodon.social, that allows users on AP apps to follow WP blogs, was recently updated. See also Pterotype, which @pfefferle says is currently more feature complete. WordPress is now listed as a project on the-federation.info.

  • ✔️ Write Freely - write.as is the flagship instances.

Link-sharing, Forum, and Group Apps

Note: Friendica (see above) has a groups engine but there are no reports that federation of groups over AP is working yet

Media-hosting Apps

  • ✔️ Anfora (formerly Zinat) - image sharing [donate]

  • ✔️ FunkWhale - music streaming

  • ✒️ Marmota - service like Spotify or any music streaming service, initial commit;

  • PeerPx - social network for photographers ("alternative to 500px / Flickr")

  • ✔️ PeerTube - video-hosting site using WebTorrent

  • ✔️ PixelFed - image sharing

  • ✔️ Pubcast - podcasting platform

  • ✔️ reel2bits - Soundcloud-like

  • snap.as - photo sharing

Events and Meetups

Friendica (see above) has an events engine but there are conflicting reports about whether or not federation of events over AP is working yet. NextCloud federated events are in the work but this may or may not be AP-compatible.

Files, Contacts, and Calendar Syncing Apps

Developer Tools

  • ✔️ ActivityPub PHP - library

  • ✔️ BridgyFed

  • ✔️ CommonsPub - a fork of Pleroma intended to provide a UX that supports economic transactions and coordination

  • ✔️ Distbin

  • ✔️ Express ActivityPub - reference implementation using Express.js

  • ✒️ FedEvent - a prototype for federating event information

  • ✔️ ForgeFed (formerly GitPub) - a set of extensions to AP for federation between code forges (Git hosting sites like GitLab, Gogs, Gitea etc)

  • ✔️ go-fed - AP libraries written in Go

  • Indienet - homepage - projects goals seem similar to the federated homepages of the IndieWeb, but federated using AP.

  • ✔️ LitePub - a set of extensions to AP, being developed by devs from Pleroma and Mastodon

  • ✔️ Nautilus - a tool to allow self-hosted blog sites to have their posts followed and commented on via AP

  • ✔️ p3k - a set of tools indie.web sites can use to support AP servers

  • Places.pub - AP implementation testing tool?

  • ✔️ pubgate - "Asyncronous Lightweight ActivityPub API ... Based on little-boxes. Implements both the client-to-server API and the federated server-to-server API. Compatible with Mastodon, Pleroma and microblog.pub"

  • Pubstrate - experimental AP implementation written in GNU Guile (no docs?)

  • ✔️ RSS-to-ActivityPub Converter - what is says on the tin ;)

  • ✔️ feed2toot - feed to MAstodon

  • Spritely - a new federated media-streaming server in Ratchet, planned by Chris Webber of MediaGoblin fame

  • tags.pub - AP implementation testing tool?

  • ✒️ WeChange - "collaboration platform"

Relays reference

It's Dead, Jim

Projects that are officially abandoned by the maintainers or with no signs of life on their code repo or any other official channels for more than a year. Listed on this watchlist just in case anyone doesn't realize they're dead, and thinks we just didn't know about them. Also in case a project is orphaned, then reactivated by a new developer.

  • Acorde - federated social music platform. Almost a year has passed since the initial commit.

  • CloutStream - proposed as a federated replacement for LinkedIn. Original Mastodon.social account appears to have been removed (copy on Pinafore), all the links projects tools appear to be down.

  • Fontina - proposed as a photo-sharing social media network. GH repo has gone read-only, and now says "dead project".

  • MediaGoblin - streaming of any and all media files. Currently in "unofficial retirement".

  • Numa - built on Ethereum blockchain but intended to federate with AP. No commits since April 2018. No reply on issue about AP compatibility testing from May 8. Homepage now a spam site.

  • Osada - Osada was a full featured social network application running under the ActivityPub protocol. It also communicated with and inter-operated with servers on the Zot6 network. Abandoned by the developers in March 2019.

  • Pylodon - Flask-based (Python) ActivityPub server , source code also on GitLab, no updates on either repo for about a year, nor on their Smilodon client app.

  • Quit.im - this was a photo-sharing web client for a GNU social server, rather than a completely separate app. It would become an AP implementation when the AP plug-in for GS is done, but it's been obsoleted by the release of PixelFed.

  • Smilodon - abandoned by developer "I'm now working on Sminos and so this will probably be 100% abandoned. There's not much to salvage, its code is cancer."

Sources

Aside from project homepages and issue trackers, and comments made on the fediverse, the SocialWG has a list of projects they hoped would implement ActivityPub and links to Issues where it's discussed. Also, there is an implementation report on ActivityPub.rocks. @Mayel from Social.coop created a web spreadsheet of AP apps and their characteristics. More projects using AP are profiled on We Distribute by Sean Tilley. The ActivityPub tag on GH is also a way to discover projects experimenting with AP.