🆚 ActivityPub vs. OpenPGP

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
ActivityPub
OpenPGP

Type

Standard
Standard

About

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

OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography.

Website

activitypub.rocks
openpgp.org #312,106

Categories

Standards › Rank #46
Standards › Rank #49

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

ActivityPub is 2.6 times more popular than OpenPGP.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

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

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 OpenPGP is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, software and hardware, and Internet services sites.
Social Networking
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Personal Pages
Content Server
Politics/Opinion
Entertainment
Technical/Business Forums

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#19,324
#35,763
#76,122
#88,802
#100,158
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Name
Rank
#25,330
#66,612
#67,250
#110,747
#151,973
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See also

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