Add new article on ActivityPub vs Webmention with insights and implementation details

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+title: "Activitypub vs Webmention Do You Need Them ?"
+date: 2025-05-16T09:23:27+02:00
+feature_link: "https://www.midjourney.com/home/"
+feature_text: "by IA Midjourney"
+description: Some personal thinking about webmention and activitypub and how to use/combine them
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+tags:
+- webmention
+- activitypub
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+- rant
+- dev
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+series:
+- Tech News
+- Indiweb, webmentions and friends
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+I have a lot of article about webmention because I implement them on my site/blog. And I use them ad comment, like sistem and more. But more I read about ActivityPub and the Feedverse more I thing it can be a good think to implement it insite your site for your content and for share to the Feedverse.
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+## Why do it?
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+One of the best arguments for having a personal ActivityPub site/server is you having a unique identity, don't fragmenting your identity[^1] on multiple Feedverse accounts.
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+[^1]: Two article about it [Federated/Fragmentated]([Federated/Fragmentated](https://cogdogblog.com/2024/11/federated-fragmentated/?ref=jadin.me)) and [Who is this?](https://jadin.me/who-is-this/)
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+But I implemented Webmention and stuff like [Brid](https://brid.gy/) for having the likes, comments and all the stuff I have in the ActivityPub about my posts. So why I need to do it?
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+If I need more reference to your post/article on the Feedverse, Mastodon has a function[^2] for show your account under your link making a link to your profile. It also easy to set up and some platform has a plugin for it (like for Wordpress) or easy articole online for your favorite platfome (for example this is for [Ghost](https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/10/adding-a-mastodon-author-to-ghost/)).
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+[^2]: Post about it [Highlighting journalism on Mastodon](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/)
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+But if you aren't in the FeedVerse you are loosing in a way in to a social media moviment which is groing with major players studing and testing the ground (Meta, Tumblr, with also X/Twitter looking without public testing) and more and more time pass, more and more service integrate the ActivityPub in their social/site/service.
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+I also have a lot of attention from the tech blogger, where if you don't write about excitement[^3] you are writing about how to implement ActivityPub on your site[^4].
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+[^3]: Some article about excitement [Why I'm excited about Ghost getting ActivityPub support](https://jadin.me/why-im-excited-about-ghost-getting-activitypub-support/) [The federated One Man & His Blog](https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/03/the-federated-one-man-his-blog/)
+[^4] For example this article [A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website) - Q1 2025 Updates](https://maho.dev/2025/03/a-guide-to-implementing-activitypub-in-a-static-site-or-any-website-q1-2025-updates/)
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+
+## And so? I need to integrate this new stuff into my site?
+
+No and yes. If you want a presence in the FeedVerse you need to be active also there but no with a integration with the ActivityPub protocol: you can share it like the "old days".
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+Also having a ActivityPub implementation somewhere is a resource draining server so you need to think about how much money and time you want to spend on it.
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+In the end Webmention and ActivityPub are two way to have more interaction with your site but you also need to now which interaction is better for your site.