Useful Links

This page contains a curated list of links to specifications, protocols, and other resources relevant to apkit and Fediverse development.

Specifications and Protocols

These are the core standards that apkit helps you implement.

• ActivityPub: The main W3C recommendation for a decentralized social networking protocol.
• ActivityStreams 2.0: The data format used by ActivityPub to represent activities and objects.
• Webfinger: A protocol for discovering information about people or other entities on the internet, used in the Fediverse to find user accounts.
• HTTP Signatures: The mechanism used to secure messages between servers.
• NodeInfo: A protocol for exposing standardized metadata about a server.

apkit-related Guides and Resources

This section includes links to the source code for apkit and its core dependencies, as well as articles and community resources.

Project Repositories

• apkit Source Code: The main repository for the apkit toolkit.
• apmodel Source Code: The library that provides the dataclass-based models for ActivityStreams 2.0 objects.
• apsig Source Code: The library used for handling HTTP Signatures.

Community

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Developer Resources

General resources that are useful when contributing to apkit.

• Conventional Commits: The specification for formatting commit messages, which is used in the apkit project.