Recently, Web3 social applications like Farcaster and Lens Protocol have been embracing the ActivityPub standard. What seems like a technical detail change actually opens a new door.

In simple terms, what does this mean? Your friends circle on Farcaster can directly connect to federated social networks like Mastodon and Bluesky. Content from Lens can be automatically synchronized to any platform that supports ActivityPub. More importantly, your social graph data is no longer locked to a single platform, truly enabling cross-protocol flow.

The data changes are quite obvious. After Farcaster integrated this standard, the daily active users jumped from 350,000 to 580,000 within a week. Guess how many of the new users are complete newcomers? 43%. What does this indicate? It shows that this technology is starting to attract outsiders, not just hardcore crypto enthusiasts.

Farcaster founder Dan Romero straightforwardly said that this is a "key turning point in the shift of social networks from platform control to user control." Even industry heavyweights like Jack Dorsey have publicly praised this direction.

Think about it, the path for Web3 social to go from niche to mainstream is still long, but this step has truly opened the door wide. Cross-platform, portable, genuine data autonomy—these slogans that have been heard for years are finally starting to move into action.