ActivityPub: from decentralized to distributed social networks

Alternately if you prefer a dead tree version, here’s a PDF: https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/talks/raw/master/activitypub/rwo...

As an aside, this is a big week for ActivityPub, since Mastodon is going to begin rolling out ActivityPub to their ~850k registered users.

And apparently GitLab went down shortly after posting this, so here's an alternate copy: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust...