Re: AP for developers in one sentence

“Web native Social interactions”

Django


On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM Kagami Rosylight <saschanaz@outlook.com>
wrote:

> "Let servers talk to each other and thus allow users of different services
> to talk to each other"?
>
> (I'd like to skip "social apps", e.g. Wordpress is not really a "social
> app" to me even if it has a social feature. But other people may disagree.)
> On 22/09/2025 21:29, Andy Piper wrote:
>
> “Create, interact and follow across and between social apps, via
> standards-based publish and subscribe”.
>
> Sent from Gmail Mobile
>
>
> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Johannes.
>>
>>
>>
>> Johannes Ernst
>>
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