Re: AP for developers in one sentence

“Create, interact and follow across and between social apps, via
standards-based publish and subscribe”.

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On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 at 20:23, Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@dazzlelabs.net>
wrote:

> If you met a reasonably competent developer, but who had never heard of
> ActivityPub or the broader space, and you had one (not too long) sentence
> to convey to them was ActivityPub is and what it might be good for, what
> would you say?
>
> Context: After the basic make-it-current updates for activitypub.rocks
> (see milestones here:
> https://github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/milestones), our first
> audience is developers. So if a developer comes across activitypub.rocks,
> what’s the first sentence that it should say so they decide it might be
> interesting enough to spend another 20 seconds to read more sentences than
> just the first?
>
> My best take right now:
>
> “If you like to use social web site A, and your friend likes to use social
> web site B, ActivityPub allows you to interact socially, follow, reply etc
> although you use different websites.”
>
> Please propose something better! :-)
>
> Thanks,
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> Johannes.
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> Johannes Ernst
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