Re: The Web's Missing Piece: How DID-Nostr Quietly Solves Social Portability

I think your assumptions are incorrect.

  * ActivityPub is not focused on microblogging. It covers a lot of
    different types of activities. It defines side effects for
    activities focused on content creation and sharing (CRUD, sharing,
    etc.) but it supports other types of activities. We have 30 activity
    types in the Activity Vocabulary, and AP is extensible so you can
    add new activity and object types.
  * We have a directed social graph as part of ActivityPub, and we cover
    the creation and maintenance of that graph pretty extensively in the
    spec.

Evan

On 2025-08-29 5:00 a.m., Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> Much of the SWICG focus is currently on the microblogging use case, 
> and streams of activities. Outside our group, though, “social web” 
> often means people, friends, and connections, the Facebook-style 
> social graph. I’ve been exploring whether today’s W3C building blocks 
> can make a portable, URI-addressable social graph practical, alongside 
> streams rather than instead of them.
>
> The blog post uses Nostr, self-sovereign, portable, identity as a 
> worked example, but the graph model aims to be broadly compatible with 
> ActivityPub, Bluesky/AT, Solid, and the wider social web. The intent 
> isn’t to pick winners, just to surface a simple, portable graph that 
> could serve as common ground across stacks. Perhaps useful food for 
> thought, for some here.
>
> https://dev.to/melvincarvalho/the-webs-missing-piece-how-did-nostr-quietly-solves-social-portability-1bg