Presentation and discussion of the social media exchange protocol. From “Building a European Cultural Backbone” May 24th, 2022 Linz, Austria

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Presentation and discussion of the social media exchange protocol
Building a European Cultural Backbone · Linz, Austria
May 24th
, 2022
benjamin.bellamy@adaures.com
CEO of Ad Aures
Father of Castopod

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What is ActivityPub?
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Wikipedia:
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ActivityPub is an open, decentralized social networking protocol.
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It provides a client/server API for creating, updating, and deleting content, as
well as a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content.
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It is a standard for the Internet in the Social Web Networking Group of the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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What is the Fediverse?

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Welcome to the closed web. :-/
isolated
service
isolated
service

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Welcome to the open web! :-)
server #1
server #4
server #5
server #3
server #2
client #1
client #2 client #3

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The key point is…
Interoperability.

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Interoperability made possible
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Open Protocol
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Federated Protocol
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Flexible
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Open-Source Solutions
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Self-Hosting

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So how does it work?

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Let’s dive in.

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Let’s dive in.

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Where are we?
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~100 implementations
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Thousands of servers
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Millions of users

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Some implementations

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Some federated networks

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The Podcast ActivityStream
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An ActivityPub Specification for podcasting
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Define a new Actor (=podcast)
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Define a new Object (=episode)

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The Podcast ActivityStream

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The Podcast Actor

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The Podcast Episode Object

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(What is Castopod?)
Castopod is a podcast hosting platform made for podcasters who want
engage and interact with their audience.
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Open-Source,
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Multi-Tenant,
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IABv2 audience measurement,
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Federated Social Network with ActivityPub,
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“Podcast 2.0”: Comments, Locked, Funding, Transcript, Chapters,
Soundbite, Geo-Location, Person…
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Any question?

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Danke für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit!
Contact me:
https://benjaminbellamy.fr/

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