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   Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:30:09 JST Andy Piper

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   • @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:
   • Evan Prodromou
   • Johannes Ernst

   @reiver @j12t @evan that explanation is also my head canon, but I defer to Evan and his co-editors!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:30:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Johannes Ernst

     @andypiper @reiver @j12t Yes, that's roughly it. I had started a project "ActivityPub" waaaay back in the OStatus days, as a client API that used the Atom format for Activity Streams data over the AtomPub API (thanks @timbray ). When @erincandescent submitted the first draft of AP, she used "ActivityPump" because it was mostly a spin on the pump.io API. We changed the name to ActivityPub just before releasing the spec.

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     @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:30:10 JST @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

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     • Johannes Ernst

     @j12t

     I recall that someone mentioned before that "ActivityPub" was a renaming of "ActivityPump".

     And, I would assume that the "pump" in "ActivityPump" is from pump.io

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump.io

     But, I never tried verifying any of that.

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     @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:30:10 JST @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

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     @j12t

     You could probably ask @evan .

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     Johannes Ernst (j12t@j12t.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:30:15 JST Johannes Ernst

     Does anybody know how the term "ActivityPub" was coined? Why that particular name?

     (It's not an obvious one for a decentralized social media protocol.)

     #ActivityPub