🆚 ActivityPub vs. Onion

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Type

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About

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

Onion sites are websites on the dark web that use the .onion top-level domain and are only accessible through online routing through Tor.

Website

Categories

Standards › Rank #46
Standards › Rank #45

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Onion is as popular as ActivityPub.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Onion is more popular in the United States, Russia, and the Netherlands, while ActivityPub is more popular in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
Germany
United States
Russia
France
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Finland
Portugal
Japan
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Onion is more popular among sites focused on general news, Internet services, and blogs and wiki, while ActivityPub is more commonly used on social networking, business, and content server sites.
Social Networking
General News
Business
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Politics/Opinion
Content Server
Software/Hardware
Finance/Banking
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#35,763
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Name
Rank
#12
xhamster.com
#24
xhamster.desi
#107
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