Year: 2024
Type: preprint
Abstract: ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol that has gained significant attention from the media for its ability to communicate through the Fediverse, short for the federated web. Servers such as Mastodon implement the ActivityPub protocol to communicate over the Fediverse. In this paper, we deconstruct the core protocols used to build the distributed servers of the Fediverse. We explore Mastodon's complex implementation of ActivityPub and created our own Mastodon instance using Java Spring Boot and ActivityPub to interoperate with Mastodon servers.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Nian, Sean, Huang, Angela, Reed, Ben
Institution: San Jose State University
Language: English
Topic: Mobile and Web Applications
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4405354781