At this year's Solid Symposium, we gave a presentation on the lessons we've learned from building and maintaining several ActivityPods applications since 2022. The result is 14 key learnings that we're glad to share with the Solid community.
This year, at the famous FOSDEM gathering in Brussels (Belgium), we were invited by the SocialWeb devroom to give a presentation on ActivityPods. It was an opportunity to highlight the “universal social network” that would be possible with ActivityPods, and how it differs from the Bluesky project.
We're delighted to announce that we've received two new grants from the NLnet foundation, which will allow us to consolidate ActivityPods. But not only that: we will also be able to add a number of long-awaited new features. So here's a quick overview of what we'll be working on in 2025.
Both projects are based on Semantic Web/Linked Data/RDF technologies, and both foster the decoupling of data storage from data usage. Data storage should stay in total control of the end-user, and third party apps should request permission to access or modify such data.
We are thrilled to announce the official release of ActivityPods 2.0, a framework and platform that allows users to create a single account for multiple decentralised social applications while also providing developers with the tools to build and integrate these applications.
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