Comment by leshokunin

3 days ago

Been pondering for my team to use it for our product’s timeline. I don’t particularly want our user base to be Bluesky, but it’d be good to have support for the protocol, and control over the system.

Have there been any products go embraced this? Or is it like ActivityPub where basically the whole thing is Mastodon.

14 comments

leshokunin

gargron 3 days ago

ActivityPub is embraced by:

  - Threads  
  - Flipboard  
  - WordPress  
  - micro.blog  
  - NodeBB  
  - PeerTube  
  - Pixelfed  
  - GoToSocial  
  - Akkoma  
  - ...and countless smaller projects

It is by no means just Mastodon.

rmccue 3 days ago
> WordPress
This isn’t quite true. WordPress.com announced they were planning on ActivityPub support, but that is a separate entity run by a commercial company (Automattic).
Their plan was to support it specifically on Tumblr, as well as helping fund an open source plugin for it; there have been no plans to integrate it into the WordPress software directly.
I believe they’ve also deprioritised it as they did significant layoffs recently.
- pera 3 days ago
  
  What do you mean? WordPress already supports ActivityPub through their plugin:
  https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
  I follow a few blogs on Mastodon just fine (for example John Carlos Baez's Azimuth, https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/), it's just like an RSS reader in your timeline.
leshokunin 3 days ago

My point is in terms of activity. I’m familiar with all those services. I recommend doing a percentage of each vs total activitypub content.
I would also discard services that auto post to the fediverse but are not actively used by the majority of users as such.

ethan_smith 3 days ago

Beyond Bluesky, there's a growing ecosystem including Pebble (a self-hosted PDS), Skychat (messaging), Skeet (app framework), Graysky (mobile client), and several specialized feeds/algorithms - unlike ActivityPub, ATProto's architecture allows for more diverse application types while maintaining interoperability.

leshokunin 3 days ago

Do you have experience with Pebble? Could be nice to have a ready made pds!

psionides 3 days ago

For now mostly just small things that the Bluesky dev/user community is playing with, but check out e.g. Tangled which is meant to be a GitHub alternative on ATProto: https://tangled.sh

verdverm 3 days ago
TikTok: https://bsky.app/profile/skylight.social
Insta: https://bsky.app/profile/pinksky.app
Twitch: https://bsky.app/profile/stream.place
Events: https://bsky.app/profile/smokesignal.events
- verdverm 3 days ago
  
  Build your own feeds / algorithms in the browser: https://graze.social
- dom96 3 days ago
  
  Pinterest: https://bsky.app/profile/scrapboard.org
- ihndan 3 days ago
  
  And here is an app to generate unified feed for such apps: https://bsky.app/profile/atpage.one

troyvit 3 days ago

Similarly our news site is considering a live-blog feature and I'm wondering if AT Proto would be a fun way to do it.

sitzkrieg 3 days ago

activitypub is mostly used in the fediverse. mastodon is one of many clients and servers, and one of the worst.