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ActivityPub

ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendation that defines a decentralized social networking protocol and REST API standard for federated social interactions. It provides both a client-to-server API for creating and managing social content and a server-to-server federation protocol for distributing activities across instances. Built on ActivityStreams 2.0 and JSON-LD, it powers the Fediverse — including Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and hundreds of other platforms — enabling interoperable social networking across independently operated servers.

ActivityPub is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

ActivityPub is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.

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