The obvious choice for ActivityPub’s birthday would be the 23rd of January 2018 - the day it was annointed as a W3C recommendation.
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The obvious choice for ActivityPub’s birthday would be the 23rd of January 2018 - the day it was annointed as a W3C recommendation. That doesn’t seem quite right though - its not as if the spec came into existence in any sense upon that date. In fact, Mastodon implemented it before thne.
There are several possible dates you might pick, but for me it will always be September 5th 2014 - when I committed the first sketch of a specification I called ActivityPump and pushed it to Github
It wouldn’t be until November that I actually submitted (a revised and enhanced version of) that draft to the working group, but even then I had the very nucleus of the specification written down.
Happy 10th birthday, ActivityPub.
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@[email protected] huh, I share a birthday with ActivityPub.
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(I sadly didn’t actually do much with ActivityPub or the Social WG after submitting that draft. I was starting a new job which had a complicated open source & similar approval process, and I was in a division which was really not used to it. But I’m glad @tsyesika, @cwebber and @rhiaro carried the torch)
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@lofty Happy birthday, Lofty!
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Sometimes I ponder: If I’d had a detailed security mechanism in that first draft, could I have saved everyone a lot of pain?
Ah well, hindsight.
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:replied to Erin 💽✨ last edited by@erincandescent Also made me check out of curiosity, seems like ActivityPub federation in Pleroma dates back from around 2017-12-11 with commit 5599c5920c293ac993146e21a73520213bbe2a8a
It already had ActivityPub but non-federating prior to that date. -
Erin 💽✨replied to Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: last edited by [email protected]@lanodan ah, I wasn't sure. Lain's blog post is from March 2018
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@erincandescent @andypiper sort of how the Internet was born when you first IP based interaction was delivered…we should probably pick the first activity pub message successfully delivered and call that the birthday. #activitypub
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@erincandescent @cwebber @tsyesika @rhiaro sorry for jumping at the opportunity, but there's one thing I've always been curious about: is there a rationale for the choice of a JSON over XML representation? Maybe some notes I can look up on the decisions?
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Erin 💽✨replied to Oblomov last edited by [email protected]
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smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)replied to Erin 💽✨ last edited by
We might ping @lightone here, who for quite a few years organized fedi's birthday with some cool and creative surprise.
The last time I think this was in 2022 launching the #FediQuiz together with @minoru at 18 May for fedi's 14th birthday.
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