🆚 ActivityPub vs. IPFS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Standard
Standard

About

ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol used by various fediverse services such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, and PeerTube.

The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer protocol for storing and accessing files and websites in a decentralized file system.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

Categories

Standards › Rank #46
Standards › Rank #52

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

ActivityPub is 13 times more popular than IPFS.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

ActivityPub is more popular than IPFS in all countries.
Germany
France
United States
Portugal
United Kingdom
Japan
Netherlands
Finland
Canada
Switzerland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

ActivityPub is more popular among sites focused on social networking, business, and content server, while IPFS is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, finance and banking, and resource sharing sites.
Social Networking
Business
Content Server
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Finance/Banking
Internet Services
Resource Sharing
Sports
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#35,763
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Name
Rank
#69,948
#165,613
#206,318
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See also

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