While a traditional social networking service will host all its content on servers managed by the owner of the website, the decentralized servers that make up the fediverse … See more

Historical protocols
The concept and the functionality of the fediverse has existed before the ActivityPub protocol and the term itself. One of the first … See more

For most of its history, adoption of the fediverse from users had been minimal due to its poor user experience and over-reliance on technical details and complex terminology, as well as from existing platforms due to a lack of general interest among their … See more

While the fediverse has traditionally been the network most commonly referred to and used as an example regarding the subject of decentralized social networks, alternatives to it and the accompanying ActivityPub have been developed and deployed. A major … See more

ActivityPub is the most widely used protocol in the fediverse and a W3C standard. Some popular fediverse software includes:
• Content management system
• Image sharing/ See more

• AT Protocol
• Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking
• Distributed social network
• IndieWeb See more

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