ActivityPub Social API Hackathon
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It's well-known that we love the ActivityPub API at the Social Web Foundation.
I think it would be great for our community to have an ActivityPub API hackathon sometime this year -- hopefully this summer. Hackathons are a great way to engage a lot of developers really quickly. They also are a great way to test that an API has enough power to get people from zero to working app in a day or a weekend.
I see a few great times to do this:
- DWeb Camp Berlin in Berlin
- Fedicon 2026 🤞🏼 in Vancouver
- HOPE in New York (probably)
Are there other good times/places for this kind of event?
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It's well-known that we love the ActivityPub API at the Social Web Foundation.
I think it would be great for our community to have an ActivityPub API hackathon sometime this year -- hopefully this summer. Hackathons are a great way to engage a lot of developers really quickly. They also are a great way to test that an API has enough power to get people from zero to working app in a day or a weekend.
I see a few great times to do this:
- DWeb Camp Berlin in Berlin
- Fedicon 2026 🤞🏼 in Vancouver
- HOPE in New York (probably)
Are there other good times/places for this kind of event?
@evan that sounds fun, let me know the details of when it'd be (before, after, during?) 🙂
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@julian @deadsuperhero We actually have a meeting tomorrow if either of you wants to come.
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/3432cf4c-a9fe-4f72-8de5-fa6809b57767/20260219T110000/
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@deadsuperhero so, here's my best bet. I can be wrong!
1. Get some servers to implement the API well.
2. Get some must-have clients that run on those servers. This shows the value of the API.
3. Our leading servers shift to supporting it.That may work; I don't know. It's my best bet right now!
I want to note that WordPress is working on the API!
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I am heart to heart with you on this, friend.
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@evan that sounds fun, let me know the details of when it'd be (before, after, during?) 🙂
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It's well-known that we love the ActivityPub API at the Social Web Foundation.
I think it would be great for our community to have an ActivityPub API hackathon sometime this year -- hopefully this summer. Hackathons are a great way to engage a lot of developers really quickly. They also are a great way to test that an API has enough power to get people from zero to working app in a day or a weekend.
I see a few great times to do this:
DWeb Camp Berlin in Berlin Fedicon 2026 🤞🏼 in Vancouver HOPE in New York (probably)Are there other good times/places for this kind of event?
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Right, which ActivityPub.Space follows and auto categorizes, which ends up as a way for microblog content to make its way into the threadiverse. @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
@silverpill@mitra.social sorry for interjecting 😁
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> @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz said:
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> We could instead try to agree on a separate place for all discussions about fediverse coordination (would it rub anyone up the wrong way if I described this as fediverse governance?). But it does makes sense to discuss a federated network in a federated network, rather than a separate, centralised forum.I keep harping on this one point because it just makes so much sense that it'd be silly not to. The new blood (new software devs implementing AP) always appear on fedi, not some third-party site, first.
To your main point, fedi on Mastodon is all just everybody talking in the same room. Certainly that's why it seems like there's so much meta-discussion about AP.
This isn't the case on the threadiverse, where discussions are segregated/categorized by community.
