![]() MacAskill had already been weighing Flickr’s direction with regard to the fediverse before today. If Flickr were to add support for ActivityPub, it would no longer function only as a photo-sharing site, but would become a part of a larger web of social networks where users could find, follow and engage with one another across platforms without having to create separate accounts for each service. The concept presents a challenge to modern-day social networks controlled by corporations - or billionaires like Elon Musk.ĪctivityPub is a key component to the fediverse, powering not only Mastodon, whose popularity has grown in the wake of Musk’s Twitter acquisition, but also other alternative social platforms, including the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others. If it moved forward with this plan, Flickr would be the latest larger company to commit to joining the “ fediverse” - the interconnected group of independent servers across the globe running free, open source software that allows their users to communicate and connect with one another. Flickr CEO Don MacAskill today began to actively poll users about whether or not they’d like to see Flickr support the protocol, too. On the heels of Tumblr’s decision to integrate with ActivityPub - the social protocol powering the open source Twitter alternative Mastodon and others - it appears that photo-sharing site Flickr is now considering doing the same. ![]()
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