ActivityPods
Framework for fully-decentralized social apps, combining ActivityPub and Solid Pods
ActivityPods brings together two game-changing protocols, ActivityPub and Solid Pods. The goal is to empower developers to create fully-decentralized social apps thanks to an easy-to-use framework. Following the Solid project's principles, ActivityPods apps store all data directly in the user's Pod (Personal Online Datastore). But since these Pods are also ActivityPub actors, they can easily exchange with other Pods and any other ActivityPub-compatible software. Lightweight bots can access the Pod's data, listen to ActivityPub activities and act accordingly. This novel architecture gives users the freedom (1) to choose where they store their data, (2) to share their data with anyone on the web, (3) to switch apps at any time without losing data. The overall benefit is a more resilient and innovative web, where privacy and interoperability are guaranteed by design.
- The project's own website: https://activitypods.org
This project was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.
