GoActivityPub: the talk

• Who are we:

  • Library to make ActivityPub Go development easier
  • Started as a link aggregator in Go
  • Moved to ActivityPub backend/frontend microservices
  • Extracted ActivityPub logic to a library

• Moving parts:

  • Vocabulary
  • Custom HTTP client implementation
  • State machine
  • Custom storage backends

• Where we are:

  • Good documentation
  • Idiomatic
  • Close to tagging the v1 of the library

• How we got here:

  • Dogfooding
  • Building both server and client applications
  • Believing in the feasibility of client to server applications
  • Almost ten years of iterating over the API
  • It’s finally good

• Where we’re heading:

  • JSON-LD is not just an afterthought
  • Code generation vocabulary types
  • Compile time vocabulary

• Thank yous:

  • NLNet
  • Andy
  • Elle from Weathered Steel, and the Forgejo community