delightful-fediverse-apps/watchlist-for-activitypub-apps.md

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[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 may be implementing ActivityPub, which began in issue https://gitlab.com/fediverse/fediverse.gitlab.io/issues/8

Note: most of these projects include both a back-end and a web client, but this list also includes 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 list here.

The SocialWG has a list of projects they hope will implement ActivityPub and links to Issues where it's discussed. Also, there is an implementation report on ActivityPub.rocks. @Mayel from Social.coop is maintaining a web spreadsheet of AP apps and their characteristics. More projects using AP are profiled on We Distribute by Sean Tilley. From these and other sources (see links), it looks like all these apps are either considering, working on, or already rolling out AP support:

Social network, Microblog Apps

• ✔ Aardwolf

• Indienet

• ✔ Kroeg

• pump.io

• &#10004 microblog.pub - single-user microblog server

• ✔ Osada - an AP server that can also act as a bridge for smoother inter-operation between AP networks and Zot networks (Hubzilla)

• ✔ Rustodon

• Pylodon - Flask-based (Python) ActivityPub server (Smilodon client, article)

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

• Kitsune - microblogging

• microstatus - Lightweight Mastodon- and GNU Social-compatible ActivityPub and OStatus server implementation

• Acorde - federated social music platform (initial commit)

Blog and Publishing Apps

• ✔ Dokie.li

• Ghost

• Known

• ✔ Plume

• ✔ Write Freely

• ✔ Read.as - a reading app

• ✔ FediBlog - fully customisable blog engine

• 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.

Link-sharing Apps

• Anancus

• ✔ Prismo

Media-hosting Apps

• ✔ Anfora (formerly Zinat) - image sharing

• ✔ FunkWhale - music streaming

• MediaGoblin - streaming of any and all media files

• PixelFed - image sharing

• Quit.im - this is a photo-sharing web client for a GNU social server, rather than a completely separate app, so it will become an AP implementation when the AP plug-in for GS is done.

• snap.as - photo sharing

• ✔ reel2bits - Soundcloud-like

Events and Meetups

• Mobilizon - aims to be more than a Meetup clone

• Calendar-social - no specific mention of ActivityPub on the repo but rumour on the fediverse is that it will be an AP app. I will post a question on their issue tracker.

• GetTogether

Files, Contacts, and Calendar Syncing Apps

• ✔ NextCloud - seem to be only using AP for internal federation?

• ✔ ownCloud - seem to be only using AP for internal federation?

Dev Tools

• ✔ BridgyFed

• Express ActivityPub - reference implementation using Express.js

• Distbin - not FOSS

• ✔ 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

• GitLab (see also: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30991)

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

• Places.pub - AP implementation testing tool?

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

• tags.pub - AP implementation testing tool?

• ✔ Nautilus

• ✔ ActivityPub PHP - library

Proposed Projects

A place to list rumoured projects for further research, and vapourware, projects that have been planned but no usable code has been written yet.

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

• Communecter - already supports ActivityStreams, plans to implement the rest of AP soon (is it alive?)

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

Dead Projects

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.

• 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".

• Numa - built on Ethereum blockchain but intends to federate with AP. No commits since April 2018. No reply on issue about AP compatibility testing from May 8.