🆚 ActivityPub vs. IPFS
- 📈 ActivityPub is much more popular than IPFS.
- 🌍 ActivityPub is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ActivityPubType
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
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
ActivityPub is 18 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
United States
France
United Kingdom
Japan
Portugal
Netherlands
Canada
Finland
Spain
Awards
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Portugal in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 36th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
ActivityPub is more popular among sites focused on social networking, blogs and wiki, and business, while IPFS is more commonly used on finance and banking, and resource sharing sites.
Social Networking
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Content Server
Sports
Finance/Banking
Entertainment
Public Information
Software/Hardware
Resource Sharing
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Webmention🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.