ActivityPods brings together two game-changing protocols, ActivityPub and Solid Pods, and empowers developers to create fully-decentralized social apps thanks to an easy-to-use framework. In the planned version 3.0, Solid clients will be able to connect to ActivityPods just like any other Solid Pod provider. Furthermore, ActivityPods 3.0 will build a bridge with the world of P2P protocols, since it will be using NextGraph (a local-first P2P solution based on CRDT) as a triple store. The result is that all Pod data will be encrypted. In addition, users will be able to create a NextGraph wallet and use it to give NextGraph apps access to their Pod data. This will allow ActivityPods to provide the first "social Pods" with built-in Fediverse communication and improved data security, potentially attracting more developers and users to the Solid and ActivityPub ecosystems.

Centralized social media stores everything on company servers: posts, contacts, preferences, and metadata are mined for profiling and held hostage to terms of service that can change without meaningful consent.

ActivityPods 3.0 separates social communication from centralized data custody. Encrypted Pod storage, Solid compatibility, and P2P components via NextGraph mean users can control which applications access their data. This directly counters surveillance, vendor lock-in, and the risk that a single provider's breach or policy change exposes an entire social graph.