While that's true of ActivityPub, the data format it uses (ActivityStreams, whic...

pmlnr · on July 27, 2018

Good. Can you please point me at working implementation examples?

jfreax · on July 27, 2018

I also couldn't find a good tutorial, but another commenter here pointed to this blog post: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-bas...

Maybe it's a good starting point?

cjslep · on July 27, 2018

The specification itself is similar in practice (technically, it's JSON-LD and not AS. The latter is a subset of the former):

JSON-LD: https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams.jsonld

Human-readable: https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams

older · on July 27, 2018

W3C maintains a list of implementations [1]. Not sure how up to date it is though.

[1] https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/tree/master/implement...

stavros · on July 27, 2018

Yeah, that might be worth it. Do you know how easy it would be to output something like that?

cjslep · on July 27, 2018

Yes, it's about medium effort if starting from scratch with no background knowledge. Mainly because I'm not sure there's any good existing tooling to convert articles to AS. And it wouldn't be complex to implement, but does require some solid time learning the vocabulary, which is intimidating.