ActivityPub
ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol used by various Fediverse services such as 
Mastodon, 
Pixelfed, and PeerTube.
According to our data, ActivityPub is detected on 0.03% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
- 🔗 Links
Wikipedia📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Standards
- Rank: 44
- Market share: 0.03%
🏆 ActivityPub Awards
- ⬆️ 40th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 40th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 43rd most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
⚡ Sites Using ActivityPub
We have data on 968 websites that use ActivityPub. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using ActivityPub is pixelfed.social.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #19,324 | English | ||
| 2 | #23,182 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 3 | #23,248 | Germany | German | |
| 4 | #26,757 | Sweden | American English | |
| 5 | #35,763 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 6 | #39,876 | Hong Kong | English | |
| 7 | #51,890 | American English | ||
| 8 | #52,892 | American English | ||
| 9 | #76,122 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 10 | #84,243 | English | ||
| 11 | #86,695 | United States | English | |
| 12 | #88,802 | South Africa | English | |
| 13 | #100,158 | English | ||
| 14 | #101,144 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 15 | #129,076 | United States | American English | |
| 16 | #141,930 | Italy | Italian | |
| 17 | #148,953 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 18 | #152,742 | Germany | English | |
| 19 | #157,268 | English | ||
| 20 | #173,409 | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use ActivityPub:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .social domain extension
- fall into the Social Networking category.
Most of the sites using ActivityPub are from the United States, Germany, and France.
- United States 18.6%
- Germany 17.6%
- France 8%
- United Kingdom 7.1%
- Japan 5.2%
- Canada 4.9%
- Finland 3.8%
- Portugal 3.7%
- Netherlands 2.9%
- Other 28.2%
Most ActivityPub users speak English or German.
- English 82.9%
- German 5.9%
- Japanese 2.5%
- Spanish 1.7%
- French 1.2%
- Italian 1%
- Chinese 1%
- Portuguese 0.5%
- Czech 0.3%
- Other 3%
ActivityPub is especially popular on .social, .com, and .org top-level domains.
- .social 22.8%
- .com 15.2%
- .org 7.6%
- .net 5.8%
- .de 4.3%
- .space 1.4%
- .fr 1.1%
- .me 1.1%
- .ca 0.9%
- Other 39.8%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing ActivityPub include social networking, blogs and wiki, and business.
- Social Networking 27.7%
- Blogs/Wiki 22.3%
- Business 12.2%
- Content Server 6.1%
- Personal Pages 3.4%
- Internet Services 2.7%
- Marketing/Merchandising 2.7%
- Entertainment 2.7%
- Sports 2%
- Other 18.2%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Which country uses ActivityPub the most?
The majority of ActivityPub users are from the United States.
Who uses ActivityPub?
According to our data, ActivityPub is used on hundreds of sites, including such established ones as pixelfed.social,
readytogo.net, and
compgen.de.
What are the alternatives to ActivityPub?
Alternatives and possible competitors to ActivityPub may include IPFS, Onion, and
Webmention.
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PeerTube🗃️ 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 3,814,624 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.