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* Conceptual overview
The federated social web is living in its second golden age, after
the original success of StatusNet and OStatus in the late 2000s.
A lot of this success has been around unification of adoption of a
single protocol, [[https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/][ActivityPub]], to connect together the many different
instances and applications into a unified network.
Unfortunately from a security and social threat perspective, the way
ActivityPub is currently rolled out is under-prepared to protect its
users.
In this paper we introduce OcapPub, which is compatible with the original
ActivityPub specification.
With only mild to mildly-moderate adjustments to the existing network,
we can deliver what we call "networks of consent": explicit and
intentional connections between different users and entities on the
network.
The idea of "networks of consent" is then implemented on top of a
security paradigm called "object capabilities", which as we will see
can be neatly mapped on top of the actor model, on which ActivityPub
is based.
Paradoxically, what may initially appear to be a restriction actually
opens up the possibility of richer interactions than were previously
possible on the federated social web while better preserving the
intentions of users on the network.
** ActivityPub
# - ActivityPub is an actor model protocol.