Why listed.to should support ActivityPub

**Updated 2024-11-19: A lot of changes, since I'm now trying out write.as as a blogging-platform.

For the last six months or so, I've increasingly gone the way of federated social media: Mastodon for shorter posts (like Xwitter but a bit longer), PixelFed for photosharing and a WriteFreely-service for blogging. One thing all of these have in common, is that they are a part of the fediverse. The English Wikipedia describes the fediverse as "a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol". A very common common protocol for federation of social networking services is ActivityPub.

Users can follow other users across the various services through ActivityPub, and get notifications of new posts. Comment on or reply to them. Quote on them. Share them. Since Mastodon, PixelFed and WriteFreely all support ActivityPub, a new post from a followed user on WriteFreely is also presented on the homefeed on Mastodon. And a picture shared on PixelFed, can be re-shared on Mastodon as well. It's all flowing across these services.

This is obviously not good for services like Instagram and Xwitter, who has a business model based on making people spending as much time on their platforms, serving adds and collecting data.

But for everybody else federation is really, really nice.

listed.to - the platform where you read this - is a really nice place. I like to write posts in Standard Notes. I like the way it integrates into blog-posts. I like that moving from notes to blog-editing is just a switch of workspaces away.

But Listed.to does not integrate with ActivityPub. So no automatic posts on updates nor re-sharing. Which is quite a shame. A year ago, a user asked on Reddit: Will listed.to have ActivityPub support? It didn't get an answer. And I don't know the answer.