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✔️ == added to live website
🎉 == projects that have successfully federated with this protocol
✒️ == newly added to this page (added, not altered. Only @light to remove please)
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: 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
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✔️ Aardwolf (site): Facebook-like social network connecting communities across the web
AGPL-3.0, Rust
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✔️ ActorsCafé: Microblogging server written in C#
AGPL-3.0, C#
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✔️ Dolphin: Lightweight ActivityPub Server optimized for single-user. A fork and sister project of Misskey
AGPL-3.0, Javascript
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🎉 ✔️ Epicyon (site): ActivityPub server implementing S2S and C2S protocols, suitable for single board computers. Includes features such as moderation tools, post expiry, content warnings, and image descriptions
AGPL-3.0, Python
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🎉 ✔️ Friendica (site): Personal network that helps to keep in contact with friends. Interface and functionality include common features of a mainstream social network
AGPL-3.0, PHP
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✔️ GNU social (site): Microblogging server with multiple plugins
AGPL-3.0, PHP
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🎉 ✔️ groundpolis: A microblogging service forked from Misskey
AGPL-3.0, Typescript
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🎉 ✔️ Honk (Fedi account): ActivityPub server with minimal setup and support costs
ISC, Go
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✔️ Kanzaki: A Mastodon-compatible, ActivityPub-speaking server in OCaml
AGPL-3.0, OCaml
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✔️ Kibou: Lightweight social networking server
AGPL-3.0, Rust
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🎉 ✔️ Kroeg (site): Generic ActivityPub server, with a focus on microblogging style activities
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🎉 ✔️ Mastodon (site): Epic microblogging network with many features and multiple interface layouts to choose from
AGPL-3.0, Ruby
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🎉 ✔️ microblog.pub (site): Self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog. Like Pubgate, uses little-boxes AP library
AGPL-3.0, Python
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✔️ microstatus: Lightweight Mastodon and GNU Social-compatible server implementation
ISC, Rust
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🎉 ✔️ Misskey (site): Sophisticated microblogging with personality. Provides many additional features like calendar, emoji reactions, polls, games, and many other widgets
AGPL-3.0, Javascript
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🎉 ✔️ Pleroma (site): Microblogging platform
AGPL-3.0, Elixir
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pump.io: still considers adding ActivityPub
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✔️ Rustodon: Mastodon-compatible server
AGPL-3.0, Rust
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✒️ Scuttlebutt - currently working on a bridge between SSB and AP networks
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🎉 ✔️ Smithereen: VKontakte-like social network, with friends, walls, photo albums and groups
Unlicense, Java
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🎉 ✔️ SocialHome (site): Personal webpage with social networking functionality
AGPL-3.0, Python
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🎉 ✔️ Tavern (Fedi account): A minimalistic Activity Pub server. Think Mastodon, but smaller and with fewer features
Go, MIT
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🎉 ✔️ Zap (site): A webserver app that supports AP, as well as Zot and diaspora protocols
MIT, PHP
Blog, Publishing, and Reading Apps
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✒️ Diffu: an attempt at a federated Tumblr/ 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.
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✔️ Dokie.li (site): Article authoring and formating
Apache-2.0, Javascript
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✔️ FediBlog (site): Fully customisable blog engine
GPL-3.0, PHP
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🎉 ✒️ FediReads, - homepage, a federated alternative to Goodreads;
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✔️ Hubzilla (site): CMS with a range of groupware tools available as plug-ins
MIT, PHP
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Known: Still considers adding AP support
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✒️ NoteIn: No commits since October 2018
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✒️ picopub: Created by the developer of Fontina as a "tiny, Mastodon-compatible blog"; no commits since February 2019
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✔️ Read.as (site): Reading app by the devs of WriteFreely
AGPL-3.0, Go
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✔️ Redaktor: AP-powered CMS
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✔️ WordPress - listed as a project on the-federation.info. AP plug-in by @pfefferle@mastodon.social, that allows users on AP apps to follow WP blogs, and comment on them, from an AP app.
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🎉 ✔️ Write Freely (site): Blog software
AGPL-3.0, Go
Link-sharing, Forum, and Group Apps
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Anancus: By @tuxether, discontinued?
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✒️ Discourse - Forum software, still considers adding AP support
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✒️ Flarum: Experimental plugin for Flarum forum software by @squeevee
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✒️ FediQuest: Federated replacement for Q&A sites, only repository, no code so far
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🎉 ✔️ Guppe (site): By @datatitian, adds "groups" support as group-type actors
GPL-3.0, Javascript
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✒️ Lobste.rs: Existing Reddit replacement adding AP support
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✔️ Littr.me (Fedi account): Link aggregator inspired by Reddit
MIT, Go
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✔️ MoonTree: Link aggregator, a work in progress
MIT, Typescript
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✒️ Pantheon: Platform for building communities, no commits since September 2019
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✔️ Prismo (Fedi account): Link aggregator
AGPL-3.0, Ruby
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✔️ Smilodon: the server by Purism used in LibreOne, not the abandoned Tuxcraft server or Pylodon client; a complementary fork of Mastodon, focusing on opt-in public spaces
AGPL-3.0, Ruby
Media-hosting Apps
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✔️ Anfora (site): (formerly Zinat) Image sharing
AGPL-3.0, Python
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✒️ Marmota: Streaming service like Spotify, no commits since March 2019;
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PeerPx: Social network for photographers (alternative to 500px / Flickr); no commits since October 2018
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🎉 ✔️ PeerTube (site): Video-hosting site using WebTorrent
AGPL-3.0, Javascript
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snap.as: Photo sharing
Events and Meetups
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🎉 ✔️ Gancio (site): Shared agenda for local communities; demo site
AGPL-3.0, Javascript
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✔️ Gath: Public events with no registration required, an instance connected with the friend.camp Mastodon instance is up at: http://events.friend.camp
GPL-3.0, Javascript
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GetTogether - Still considering adding AP support
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✔️ Mobilizon (site): Aims to be more than a Meetup clone
AGPL-3.0, Elixir
Friendica (see above) has an events engine that federates events over AP and is looking to test interop with other AP events apps. NextCloud federated events are in the works but this may or may not be AP-compatible.
Files, Contacts, and Calendar Syncing Apps
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🎉 ✔️ NextCloud-Social (site): Social networking app for NextCloud
AGPL-3.0, PHP
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MoodleNet: Social client for Moodle LMS (Learning Management System) aimed at helping teachers collaboratively collate and curate sets of OER (Open Educational Resources)
Dataset exchanging
- ✔️ OLKi (site, Fedi account): A self-hosted linguistic corpora exchange platform that aims to be a simple gateway to the Fediverse for scientific interaction
AGPL-3.0, Python
Developer Tools
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✔️ ActivityPubMock: A mock ActivityPub server to use in testing code
Apache-2.0, Javascript
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✔️ ActivityPHP (Fedi account): Library for AP in PHP
MIT, PHP
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✔️ CommonsPub (site): A fork of Pleroma intended to provide a UX that supports economic transactions and coordination
AGPL-3.0, Elixir
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✒️ Drupal plugin by @swentel
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✔️ Express ActivityPub: Reference implementation using Express.js
MIT, Express
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✔️ feed2toot: Feed to Mastodon, using the Mastodon client<>server API, not AP
MIT, Python
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✒️ FedEvent: A prototype for federating event information
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✔️ astreams (Fedi account): "ActivityStreams 2.0 encoding/decoding for Go" for use with fediQuest
AGPL-3.0, Go
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✔️ ForgeFed (formerly GitPub) (site, Fedi account): A set of extensions to AP for federation between code forges (Git hosting sites like GitLab, Gogs, Gitea etc)
CC-1.0
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✔️ go-fed: ActivityStreams & ActivityPub in golang
BSD-3-clause, Go
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✔️ LitePub (site): A set of extensions to AP, being developed by devs from Pleroma and Mastodon
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✔️ Nautilus: A tool to allow self-hosted blog sites to have their posts followed and commented on via AP
Apache-2.0, PHP
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✔️ p3k: A set of tools indie.web sites can use to support AP servers
MIT, PHP
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Places.pub: AP implementation testing tool?
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✔️ ActivityPub-PHP (Fedi account): A PHP implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, used in Perotype plugin
MIT, PHP
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✔️ 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"
BSD-3-clause, Python
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Pubstrate: Experimental AP implementation written in GNU Guile, no commits since November 2017
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✔️ RSS-to-ActivityPub Converter: RSS to AP converter
MIT, Javascript
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Spritely: federated MUD (MultiUser Dungeon) game engine, coded in Racket, by Chris Webber of MediaGoblin fame.
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tags.pub: AP implementation testing tool?
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✔️ Vervis: A web-based code forge and the reference implementation of ForgeFed
AGPL-3.0 / CC0, Haskell
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✒️ XWiki: A text-based collaboration platform. The XWiki team are the creators of Cryptpad.
Relays reference
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✔️ Activity relay
AGPL-3.0, Python
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✔️ Pub relay
AGPL-3.0, Crystal
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✔️ Seattle relay
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Miscellaneous
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✒️ Agora:
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✔️ CPub: a semantic web server, part of the openEngiadina project
AGPL-3.0, Elixir
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✒️ Hash2Pub: A fully-decentralised relay for global hashtag federation. White paper. No source code available yet.
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✒️ Kepi (formerly Chapeau?): "daemon in Django".
GPL-2.0, Python
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✔️ PherePhone: "A server that reblogs all the statuses of certain actors".
AGPL-3.0, Go
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✔️ SemApps (site): Software toolkit for easy deployment and configuration of semantic information systems.
Apache-2.0, Javascript
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✔️ SkoHub (site): A novel approach for finding content on the web. SkoHub extends Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) to create a publication / subscription infrastructure for Open Educational Resources.
Apache-2.0, Javscript
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✒️ un chapeau: Server for the Mastodon protocol, implemented in Django.
AGPl-3.0, Python
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✔️ RavenVale: federating GuildWars2 website
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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.
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Acorde - federated social music platform. Almost a year has passed since the initial commit.
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ActivityStreams: Reference Implementation
Apache-2.0, Java
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ActivityPub.jl - AP support in the Julia language by @Matt5sean3, no commits since August, 2018. Project is missing, presumed dead.
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Calendar-social - was definitely planning to implement AP. Missing, presumed discontinued
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CloutStream - proposed by @mwpdx as a federated replacement for LinkedIn. Both @cloutstream and @mwpdx Mastodon.social accounts appears to have been removed from the server, all the project tools appear to be down, or removed from the host.
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Fontina - proposed as a photo-sharing social media network. GH repo has gone read-only, and now says "dead project".
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GangGo - Seems to have settled on using Go-Fed for AP federation. Developer has suspended development for the foreseeable future.
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Indienet - homepage - abandoned in favour of Tincan development.
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Kitsune: early alpha; no commits since November 2018; homepage down
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Smilodon (server by Tuxcraft) - 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." Sminos appears to have never got beyond the initial commits.
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 and his team. There are boards for discussing a range of AP implementations on the SocialHub forum. Alternative.to has a list of AP servers and client apps. The ActivityPub tag on GH is also a way to discover projects experimenting with AP.