Initial ActivityPub authorization (authz) support has been added to the FIRM software. It’s a plugin and specific implementations can customize the policies. Unfortunately, ActivityPub has very minimal guidance on authorization and access control, so different implementations may use significantly different policies. This initial version is relatively simple. In the future, I plan to explore other, … Read more
Version 0.2.0 of the FIRM Server has been released. This version adds support for Linked Data storage and queries. The new RdfResourceStore uses Oxigraph to store RDF information for ActivityPub and other types of data. The FIRM Core logic is the same whether the data is plain JSON stored on the filesystem, or RDF triples … Read more
FIRM is a Federated Information Resource Manager. It’s a flexible server platform for experimentation with ActivityPub and Social Web software. The focus is not on performance or scalability, but on the ability to create rapid prototypes of new functionality. This is a work in progress so expect bugs and breaking changes. The source code is … Read more