evan

@evan@activitypub.space · Joined ⁨Aug⁩ ⁨2025⁩

He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.

Research Director, Social Web Foundation.

Director of Open Technology at Open Earth Foundation (OEF).

Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.

Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.

Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.

Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.

Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.

In Montreal, from San Francisco. Greek, Arab, American, Canadian, cook, gardener, runner, dad, husband.

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Replying to an earlier post

I'd add in projects like Emissary, Bonfire, or https://github.com/evanp/activitypub-bot . They can all be used to build Fediverse servers from building blocks.

I think other parts might be more piecemeal. I thing HTTP Signature libraries are awesome. https://github.com/social-web-foundation/activitystrea.ms is an AS2 library that I've used a lot, even though it's weird.

https://github.com/social-web-foundation/ap-components is a Web Components library for ActivityPub objects. Also kind of cool!

I think a lot of of building a Fediverse server -- or client! -- is implementing behaviour, which an engine like Fedify can do, but most libraries aren't going to do for you.

An ActivityPub server-side bot framework. Contribute to evanp/activitypub-bot development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubGitHub - evanp/activitypub-bot: An ActivityPub server-side bot frameworkAn ActivityPub server-side bot framework. Contribute to evanp/activitypub-bot development by creating an account on GitHub.