Should publishing with ActivityPub be about as easy as publishing with RSS?
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@bobjonkman @evan Relevant: http://scripting.com/davenet/2001/04/04/aBusyDevelopersGuideToSoap.html.
Back in the day both Dave Winer (no Fediverse handle?) and Sam Ruby ( @samruby) showed ways to do The Simplest Possible Thing with SOAP.
@judell @bobjonkman @samruby definitely @davew is on the Fediverse!
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I just finished reading your post (after posting my previous reply) and it confirms my thought that ActivityPub, even a static implementation, has too many moving parts. I'll follow some of the links in your post (later, I've been rate-limited) to see if I can wrap my head around it. I've never been able to wrap my head around anything Ruby, tho.
@bobjonkman I think it's possible to tighten up the file structure even further, by using embedded objects with fragment identifiers. That said, I think it's a big step forward for publishers. I was able to make a plugin for Jekyll pretty quickly.
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The ActivityPoll #FEP has a very unfortunate name, clashing and overloading with the existing concept of a #Poll on the fediverse. The mechanism it documents is generally called #Polling.
@smallcircles @bobjonkman I think "very unfortunate" is an exaggeration.
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@jpaskaruk I wouldn't say "replace RSS". The point is to provide easy to publish Fediverse accounts.
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@smallcircles @bobjonkman I think "very unfortunate" is an exaggeration.
Just 'Unfortunate', I agree :)
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@bobjonkman @evan Relevant: http://scripting.com/davenet/2001/04/04/aBusyDevelopersGuideToSoap.html.
Back in the day both Dave Winer (no Fediverse handle?) and Sam Ruby ( @samruby) showed ways to do The Simplest Possible Thing with SOAP.
@judell @bobjonkman @evan @samruby
here i am
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I usually don't give a response to polls until they're done but since I just published a blog post on this topic it feels dishonest not to link to it.
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/09/04/static-activitypub-publishing/
Thanks to everyone who replied. I say yes.
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I usually don't give a response to polls until they're done but since I just published a blog post on this topic it feels dishonest not to link to it.
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/09/04/static-activitypub-publishing/
@evan can you maybe please guide us on how to proceed once the plugin is integrated on static sites?what's next? how can we connect it to the fediverse for mastodon to be able to see it and for people to connect/follow? if i'm on a different instance of mastodon what should i ask of my admin to make it happen?
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I just finished reading your post (after posting my previous reply) and it confirms my thought that ActivityPub, even a static implementation, has too many moving parts. I'll follow some of the links in your post (later, I've been rate-limited) to see if I can wrap my head around it. I've never been able to wrap my head around anything Ruby, tho.
imho the way to do it is to develop the software and then make the protocol public.
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@evan can you maybe please guide us on how to proceed once the plugin is integrated on static sites?what's next? how can we connect it to the fediverse for mastodon to be able to see it and for people to connect/follow? if i'm on a different instance of mastodon what should i ask of my admin to make it happen?
@river these are great questions! I will add them to the README.
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