Social networks play a fundamental role in our lives, allowing people from all over the world to communicate and share information quickly and easily. However, as these sites grow, Concerns have also been raised about the centralization of power and lack of control over our own data.
This is where ActivityPub comes in. A web federation protocol that will revolutionize the world of decentralized social networks. This is the technology that connects Fediverso’s different social networks like Mastodon or Meta’s new social network in the future.
Have you heard of ActivityPub before?
Well, ActivityPub is a web-based communication protocol and standard for the Internet by the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Social Networking Group. It allows different applications and platforms to exchange information in a federated manner or in other words. A system where multiple servers and services can exchange information and share data with each other without depending on a centralized agency.
This decentralized approach has the potential to change the way we interact online and give us more control over our own social media experiences. In terms of its functionality, think of some of Fediverso’s social networks like Mastodon or Pixelfed (alternatives to Twitter and Instagram). You can post a photo on one network and view it from another.
In fact, you can copy a user’s address on Mastodon and search for them on Pixelfed to follow them. With this, From your account you can now see the posts of the user in question on another social network. This is undoubtedly a very interesting and attractive activity, so all social networks that bet on ActivityPub can enjoy these benefits.
Having said all that, it’s time to bring the Threads social network into the conversation, and that’s because Meta promises it won’t be a centralized social network. ActivityPub will use this technology in the future. With this, users of Threads and Mastodon can, for example, read and reply to each other’s posts, connect with each other and follow each other.
It is very interesting because it will become one of the first private social networks to decide to work with the public. Commit to keeping threads a more neutral and objective social network Compared to Twitter.
This is certainly an issue, if implemented. The trend of social networks in the future can be strongly changedSo, we’ll have to wait and see how things pan out and whether Meta keeps his promise.