Building ActivityPub

2025-02-23 21:38:26

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Hello again! It's us, your friendly neighborhood ActivityPugs — with a short-form update for you this week about what we've been up to.

Firstly, thanks so much for all your comments and thoughtful feedback about ActivityPub onboarding in response to last week's newsletter. There were lots of great ideas in there that we'll be discussing and incorporating into the next revisions as we start putting things together.

What's new with ActivityPub?

The last few weeks have been challenging, and we were hoping to be closer to launching the public beta by this point, but we've been running into some engineering issues that are just taking a lot longer to get past than we hoped. So, this update is a little lighter than usual on details.

One bit of good news is that our reading client in Ghost has reached its final form, and is broadly representative of what you can expect to see in Ghost 6.0 later this year. It even has dark mode now 🌚




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The main challenges remaining, now, are all on the back-end — making this functionality performant, stable and feature-complete.

Hopefully we'll have some more progress to share soon on that front. While you wait, here's some extra Fediverse news from our good friends over at Flipboard:

ActivityPub at SXSW '25

Flipboard + Surf.Social are hosting the first-ever [strong]Fediverse House[/strong] in Austin, Texas, on [strong]March 9 - 10[/strong], 2025, and are looking to invite Ghost community members into the space.

Come listen to panels, network, grab some refreshments, and dream big about an open-source future. And if you’re interested in getting involved on the panels about creators or communities, please email mia@flipboard.com with a bit about yourself. Otherwise, learn more and find RSVP here:

SXSW ’25 - About Flipboard
Flipboard and Surf are hosting the first-ever Fediverse House at SXSW to explore the world of decentralized social media.
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