#apnative — Public Fediverse posts

@ben

it's progress but I'm not sure it's the model I want to see win. what others call microblogging is imo a social news feed. our open graph. I want to be able to plug that into my podcatcher but also a reader app and video player. everybody publishing everything as #APnative so that the work itself can be boosted and go viral, and have comments and favorites attached. WP does this now, not sure anybody else does. and we don't have any apps/players embracing the vision yet afaik.

@quillmatiq.com

we've gotta flesh out the decentralized ecosystem in order to better compete. make the content #APnative, build more reader apps, figure out direct and automatic funding.

@WordPress

so could they be more fedi supportive? make their articles #APnative? I follow this account: @theintercept

cc @pfefferle

In the video in the post I just boosted, @anildash says #Substack is now boiling the frog in a slow move from email towards lock-in. And of course they work with Nazis etc.

What we need is an effort between newsletter publishers like #Ghost #WordPress etc and reader apps like @wallabag to build an ecosystem like podcasting. To make it smooth while remaining totally open. I'd argue for using #ActivityPub in addition to RSS to support boosts. Then we need decentralized money.

#APnative

@thisisfranciswu

I use @wallabag for that now. It's great. It doesn't require kicking the audio out to a podcatcher.

Instead of RSS, I'd like to see integration with #ActivityPub. Allowing us to bookmark it here and have it show up in the reader queue. And have the reader let us boost it and favorite and reply from there. And show us the most popular articles with the people we follow.

imo we need a reader ecosystem like we have a podcast ecosystem today. we need #APnative articles.

@strypey

RSS/podcasting imo is about being able to create the work however you want and have it consumed however they want. no middleman. freedom. but also maintaining an ecosystem of options and ensuring healthy competition.

it's the best example of decentralized media but I also see #peertube and #owncast and reader apps as part of this.

what I'd like to see podcasting support is distribution via #ActivityPub in addition to RSS. then we could boost episodes directly. I call this #APnative.

@tchambers @dsearls

and let's go further. decentralized media is one third of what I call #DemocracyOfReach, the other two being the social news feed (my perhaps better term for microblogging) and automatic/direct financial support.

anybody should be able to create the content however they want and anybody should be able to consume it however they want, no middleman. then it goes viral based on human boosts. then we pay creators what we can for time spent with it.

#APnative #PublicPatron

@pfefferle @johnonolan

that's the one and I agree. but I think this format is better called a social news feed. the attention stream. how I tell anybody who cares to follow me, that an article is worth their time. I boost it. what you've done with making them #APnative is let me boost the article itself, instead of a post linking to it. then writers can see the shares and comments all on their blog. and readers could have it be managed by our choice of reader apps. enabling more innovation.

@pfefferle

did you guys do a write up about posts here actually being the full article somewhere? I think it's a huge part of the puzzle. I remember a podcast talking about moving in this direction with @johnonolan.

#APnative #DemocracyOfReach

@pfefferle @jeremy @wallabag @activitypub.blog

so I was able to save the latest post itself (which is actually also the full article) directly via the wallabag Android app. that's awesome!

#APnative

@pfefferle @jeremy

I'd like WP to output #APnative articles that I could directly boost or read later (or have read to me via TTS) via @wallabag. I'd like it all to work together so it automatically shows up in my queue there if I bookmark it here. An open but smooth ecosystem ala podcasting, but with the news feed and boosting of fedi built in.

This kind of interoperability is our killer app to move people off the platforms. Serving readers and creators better without lock-in.

All articles, podcasts, videos etc being #APnative. When we quote boost them, they show up normally to our followers. But when you click on it, our quote looks like just another reply but with some kind of icon to note it's actually a quote. And of course hashtags work like subreddits and replies nest like on reddit.

#MyFedi

@RobertaFidora

I just hate that they call it social media when we are also social media. and all famous people eventually become less famous.

as you're saying, the problem is chasing the corporate algo. as long as most people are there, many will do that.

imo going viral is a great thing when it's organic. it's much better that the people decide rather than a few anointed media outlets as in the days pre social media. I think we can do more to grow fedi and related tech. make work #APnative.

@progo

by #APnative I mean that the article is itself an ActivityPub item.

the big idea is to break the power of big money over the media. to decentralize all the pieces. it should appeal to the left and right. only scaring the wealthy, who is a hell of an enemy I'll admit. but the pieces should be relatively easy to build (except for a fiat transfer protocol). but it's all being worked on, people just don't see the big picture.

make sense?

https://democracyofreach.org

We could beat #substack if everybody worked together.

Publish anywhere as #APnative so that it auto shares on fedi, not just a post linking to it. Bookmarking it means it queues up in our chosen reader app. Then we scroll or use TTS to have it read to us while we do chores etc. The creator and time spent is reported to our bank and used monthly to divide up and distribute an amount we choose. And we can boost the article.

Read/play, attention, support. All decentralized.

#DemocracyOfReach

@McNeely @surf @ashur

if only they fully interoperated...

I see AP as basically RSS + boosts and replies. but hopefully someday it will be widely used for more than posts. articles, podcasts, videos etc being created #APnative. it's in the spec.

@ricmac

imo the term microblogging is a mistake. this format should be thought of as our social news feed. all blogs, articles, podcasts, videos, songs etc should be made #APnative. essentially having equal status with a post. able to be boosted themselves and have replies directly attached. the work living on the creator's site and all this allowing them to track all interaction in one place, not track down posts that link to it. but this will require player/reader apps supporting AP etc.

Is anybody publishing #APnative content?

I just had the thought that maybe accounts like @NewYorker could try it. Use the article object type. How would my @Mastodon server and @moshidon app process it? But maybe more importantly, could my reader app @wallabag be made to work with it? I thought we'd have #ghost and #wordpress doing it by now. Maybe they do.

cc @mike @evan

#SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach

@artofmanliness

I bookmarked it and then added it to my podcatcher. I wish that could be one thing. and I wish we could boost the episode itself. thanks.

#APnative

@mariabustillos.com

I call it #DemocracyOfReach. No algos, no ads, no corporate control. We're all using decentralized social media and all the works are #APnative. We boost the stuff we like. Sometimes it goes viral. Hopefully it can all be open access and we pay creators what we can afford, based on our time with their work.

This looks like progress but I just want every article, podcast, video, song etc to be #APnative. I don't want another app, I want the core reader/player apps we already have to integrate our social graph. I know so much of this future I envision is waiting for an easy and automatic way to support all the creators we spend time with, outside of ads or gatekeepers.

https://flipboard.social/@mike/116335983818042627

The best solution for avoiding being misled by viral #AI slop will be making it easy to figure out who created it. Having usernames with verified domains attached, so that reputations develop re who uses what tools, why and how. As much as possible, it would mean boosting and linking to the original work, not copy and pasting. Everything being #APnative, not advertising or just created for a social media platform.

#SocialWeb

RE: https://daveverse.org/2026/03/28/blueskys-future-for-devs/

This article is #APnative. You can boost, favorite and reply to it directly. You do not need to create another post that links to it. The creator can see everything in one place that they can control forever. All long form writing, podcasts, videos, songs etc should work like this. It is the killer app for the #SocialWeb, something the corporate platforms can never provide. A reason all creators should join us here. We just need reader/player apps that support this work.

Thanks @davew.

@anewsocial

I've been pushing for all articles, podcasts, videos, songs etc to be #APnative. that the item itself, not just a post linking to it, can be boosted and favorited and replied to. that's our killer app advantage over closed platforms. creators can run their own site for their content, and everything they make becomes inherently social and possibly worldwide viral. they can track all the reactions in one place that they control forever.

but we also need apps that support all this.

The goal should be that the fediverse or #SocialWeb not be a separate thing but instead an attention layer on the open web. That every bit of text, audio or video can go viral via human boosts like a post here. With replies attached. Then everything we make for public consumption can become "social media". #APnative

That's different than direct messages or posts in your private groups. That's social networking imo.

For this reason, I'm very undecided whether they should use the same protocol.

Your Website Could Be Your Social Media Account

#SocialWeb #APnative #IndieMedia #punk

@gabe

a corollary to this is boosting a link to an article, video or podcast (or someday the #APnative thing itself). the difference is that you may not have time to check it out yet and should before you forward it on. that's why I love the bookmark but wish it was integrated with our reader/player apps.

@news @phillycodehound

people are only using video cause they want to take advantage of the YT algo. our push back should be saying corporate algos are bad for lots of reasons but we can give you human boosts. but that requires making podcast episodes #APnative. finding a way to run podcasts off of #ActivityPub in addition to RSS.

@bruce @wallabag

It's great but you can't boost it directly ala AP. I see AP as the successor to RSS. I'd like to see people using AP instead of RSS for podcasts. Still decentralized but it would make it possible for the actual episode, not just lots of different links to it, to go viral. With all the comments attached.

#APnative

@scripting

isn't this what making articles #APnative would do if you made that reply from your own AP server?

Does my idea of other works now being made #APnative, being a differentiator from not just closed platforms but also #bluesky & #ATproto, make sense?

AFAIK articles, videos, podcast episodes and songs etc can be made #AcrivityPub enabled from the start from now on, allowing lots of innovation but esp boosting/favoriting the work itself, not just a post that links to it. Replies get attached directly. Social media becomes less its own thing than an attention layer on the open web. Creators win.

Does my idea of other works now being made #APnative, being a differentiator from not just closed platforms but also #bluesky & #ATproto, make sense?

AFAIK articles, videos, podcast episodes and songs etc can be made #AcrivityPub enabled from the start from now on, allowing lots of innovation but esp boosting/favoriting the work itself, not just a post that links to it. Replies get attached directly. Social media becomes less its own thing than an attention layer on the open web. Creators win.

Does my idea of other works now being made #APnative, being a differentiator from not just closed platforms but also #bluesky & #ATproto, make sense?

AFAIK articles, videos, podcast episodes and songs etc can be made #AcrivityPub enabled from the start from now on, allowing lots of innovation but esp boosting/favoriting the work itself, not just a post that links to it. Replies get attached directly. Social media becomes less its own thing than an attention layer on the open web. Creators win.