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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 01:04:28 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   • mray

   Often times people ask me, "But how do I learn about how ActivityPub works? Where do I get started?"

   Friends! The ActivityPub spec itself is here to help you! There's a really lovely story-driven tutorial about ActivityPub right at the top of the spec in the "Overview" section! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview

   Give it a read! I tried really hard to make it easy to follow, and it has beautiful illustrations from @mray!

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   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 02:21:45 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Tsyesìka
     • Erin
     • https://rhiaro.co.uk/

     A lot of people contributed to ActivityPub, but I'm going to give a breakdown of the authors and what they did:

     - Evan Prodromou designed the core prototol, derived from the federation API of Pump.IO (itself a "lessons learned" from his experiences co-authoring OStatus, ActivityPub's predecessor)
     - @erincandescent converted Evan's set of notes into the spec format and language style
     - @tsyesika was the first major editor of the spec once it was being standardized at the W3C
     - @rhiaro separated out client-to-server support from server-to-server support and made many, many edits
     - And I carried the spec through probably the majority of the bureaucratic process and tried really hard to get inter-project buy-in on its ideas. And most importantly, I wrote that "Overview" tutorial at the top of the document, which is the part I'm most proud of!