"#ActivityPods is a combination of two #W3C standards: #ActivityPub, and the #Solid specification. The first standard is for data federation and networks, the second is for data storage and access. The ideals of both projects put together create a compelling vision: data control, across user applications, in service to communication across the web."
The #ActivityPub ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace. One project, #ActivityPods, is making an ambitious effort to combine the Fediverse with the power of #Solid.
Messing around with #ActivityPods at work. Question: does the mypod.store provider only work with the three installed Solid apps? (Mastopod, Mutual Aid, Welcome To My Place)
I can't seem to get other #Solid apps to work with it, unless I'm misunderstanding something? I thought ActivityPods was intended to run on top of standard Solid Pods.
A new project for the #fediverse using #activitypub, this is the deal, in case someone wants to help me, or collab in this adventure. Coding skills required but you do not need to be an expert.
Boost for reach.
I volunteer with a non-profit, and there are a few events where they issue digital badges, for now they are just images. Now, they are looking to do it more formally so we looked for commercial alternatives, like Credly, but they are vey cost prohibitive.
All the FEPs are very interesting as simple ways to extend ActivityPub. I'm also naturally very interested by any subject around the interoperability between #ActivityPub and #Solid (as #ActivityPods developer). I'm also interested about how to use ActivityPub to bring Open #Badges to a social dimension (see this other project I've been contributing to: https://activitybadges.org)
This is fascinating to see.. I have long been intrigued by the ideas around #SOLID “pods” from Tim Berners-Lee and others working with him. The whole idea of keeping all your data in one place, and then having services pull it from your cache. Very much aligned with the #POSSE philosophy for publishing.
But there has not yet been many ways to use those pods. Could this combination with #ActivityPub help? Hmmm… glad to see people working on this!
@danyork@box464 Yeah, I was excited by SOLID, but disappointed at the lack of concrete progress and the lack of interop with other technologies.
ActivityPods solves some of those issues. I'd prefer to self-host, but I'm reticent to self-host a docker application. Also I'd prefer to store media in cloud storage I'm already paying for.
So, for now, I'm self-hosting a tiny ActivityPub server and storing media in cloud storage. Is that a SOLID pod of sorts?
"With ActivityPods, you have only one profile, one outbox, one inbox and one list of followers - all in a single place. Applications connect to your Pod to post activities, read the inbox and fetch data. And of course they can connect to any existing fediverse application!"
@hrefna the combination with #Solid project or similar personal data vault solutions has been suggested.
There've been discussions at #SocialHub about this, and at least one project I know is going this route, #ActivityPods by Sébastien Rosset and funded by @NGIZero
What we really need in the #SocialWeb, as the next iterative progression of #ActivityPub and its implementations like #Mastodon etc. IMHO. https://solidproject.org to store all posts and pictures etc per user, not per instance or account. This would radically reduce the scope of an implementation and allow for frictionless migration between instances. This does NOT necessarily need any change to the standard. It's an implementation detail, AFAICS. #SocialCG
Other than that #SocialHub has made quite a few outreach attempts to #Solid project. There's some very fine people in the community there, but the core project (imho) could focus more on community formation.