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As part of my book “ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web“, I created a coding example to show how to program for the ActivityPub API. ap is a command-line client, written in Python, for doing basic tasks with ActivityPub. For example, you can log into a server using this command: Once you’re logged in, you…
A brief note: the Social Web Foundation, Qlub and FediHost are presenting a day-long Fediverse conference in Montreal, Canada on February 24, 2026. FediMTL features speakers from across the Fediverse, including Cory Doctorow, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Julian Lam, and yours truly, Evan Prodromou. The theme of digital autonomy for Canada has never been more important. Tickets…
Mallory is heading to India later this month to kick off something we’ve been building toward for a while: the first in a global series on AI and the social web. Alongside the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, SWF is holding space for dialogue among a focused group to dig into what comes next as…
This week I (Mallory) was at the Digital Competition Conference hosted by the Knight Georgetown Institute representing SWF. Conversations unlocked cooperation between tech, law and regulation that is needed to rein in market abuse by gigantic digital infrastructures. What made this conference especially valuable was how consistently the discussion balanced between all three. I was…
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