Authors: Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, Amy Guy, Evan Prodromou
Abstract
The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.
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