Top 7 Go Activitypub Projects

WriteFreely

25 3,901 8.8 Go

A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community.

Project mention: One of the greatest user interface disasters in history | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-29

Mastodon is a microblogging service, so not meant for large bodies of text. This is why the text entry box is small, the columns are somewhat narrow (especially in deck mode) etc.
Platforms like https://writefreely.org/ , which are designed to be for blogging and long-form writing, are the place to write this. Write Freely federates so one can follow accounts and interact with posts via Mastodon etc.
gotosocial

11 3,154 9.5 Go

Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.

Project mention: Official Lemmy instance to migrate off reddit | /r/rust | 2023-06-05

Honestly if a server allows free login, then it shouldn't matter how the donations are spent, the admins are probably at a loss anyway. I've seen large phpBB forums run on donations for a long time, so maybe federated socials can work too. One unfortunate thing I've noticed from running a single-user GoToSocial instance is that it consumes a lot of storage, I'm getting 8Gb just from myself and the instances I follow. This could be brought down with more agressive cache settings, but it still shows that people using these new social media still have habits from Twitter or Reddit, where bandwidth and storage is paid for by advertisers, and don't realize how many gigabytes they're casually moving around. I really hope this won't be the downfall of the Fediverse.
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activity

1 679 10.0 Go

ActivityStreams & ActivityPub in golang, oh my! (by go-fed)

Project mention: Introduction to ActivityPub | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-09
brutalinks

2 257 10.0 Go

Link aggregator inspired by (old)reddit using ActivityPub federation. (mirror repository)

Project mention: Test 4 | /r/pineappleteriyaki | 2023-06-10

Brutalinks + Code (fka Littr)
Activity-Relay

2 257 10.0 Go

Yet another powerful customizable ActivityPub relay server written in Go.

Project mention: How do you set up a Relay Server for Mastodon | /r/Mastodon | 2023-01-26
fedbox

4 120 10.0 Go

Reference implementation of an ActivityPub service using go-ap packages (mirror repository)

Project mention: How far did my post go on the Fediverse? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-08

If you're interested in an ActivityPub that works like that, I work on one called FedBOX[1]. It doesn't have clients at the moment, but that's how I planned to have it used.
https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox
servitor

6 58 10.0 Go

A command-line Fediverse client that doesn’t require a server

Project mention: Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-13

In principle, if you want the post and comments without JS you can just pull the underlying ActivityPub document (application/activity+json). I made a command-line browser based on this idea: https://github.com/bentonedmondson/servitor
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-11-29.