Markets · bedrock market · provisional
Social and Fediverse
Shape market (activitypub re-served; graded by declared degree and observed federation). The Kin Score Market layer reads each provider in its market:
who it integrates with, how deep those integrations go, and where the market publishes its own structure.
Methodology.
33providers measured
20 (60.6%)declare their own
5 (15.2%)covered by others only
2 (6.1%)distribution only (sell through, not integrations)
6 (18.2%)undeclared
11declare compatibility (report only, not weighted)
0in-market workflows shown (3 bridges)
Provisional. Provisional and unweighted: the Market layer is not part of the composite or agent readiness. Leader lists are read within a position, never as one ranking. A provider that declares nothing we can
read is shown as undeclared, with no number: we never infer integrations.
Where this market publishes its structure
- FediDB server software register (api.fedidb.org/v1/software) machine-readable
- Providers' own ActivityPub / federation pages (fetched, saved under evidence/compatibility/) machine-readable
- Discord App Directory not machine-readable: undocumented internal endpoint
- Patreon app directory not machine-readable: 403 to non-browser clients; readable via fetch-url browser 2026-10-19: /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-kinlane-Github/a1b74aa0-fbe8-49e1-96c9-ddf8b0797844/scratchpad/r9/retry/social-fediverse/patreon-app-directory.json (5 featured apps with outbound hosts; the rest of the directory is not in the rendered page)
- YouTube / Twitch creator partner directories not machine-readable: no public listing
- joinmastodon.org server directory not machine-readable: JSON, but community instances, not companies
Own = declares at least one integration itself; covered = visible only because an aggregator, standards body, regulator or partner contract names it; distribution-only = listed only on cloud marketplaces it sells through, a channel reported beside, never counted as its own declared integrations; undeclared = nothing we can read, so no number; declares_compatibility = providers with a `compatible` shape vote, report only (kin, 2026-10-13): never counted as own, never in depth or position.
Taxonomy how this market maps onto apis.io
Derived 2026-10-23 from the 33 providers in this market we could resolve in the
catalog. The percentage is the share of those providers carrying each one; it describes the market, not the tag or industry. Tag groups have no page of their own yet, so they are listed unlinked.
| Tags | Social Media 48%, Open Source 27%, Social 27%, Analytics 21%, Video 21%, Content 21% |
|---|
| Tag groups | Social Media 61%, Media 55%, Mobile 27%, Social Network 27%, Marketing 24%, MCP 21%, Analytics 21% |
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| Industries | Music, Audio & Creator Economy 70%, Marketing & Advertising 24%, Data & Analytics 21% |
|---|
| Areas | Agents 12% |
|---|
| Capabilities | Marketing Management 24%, Developer Platform & API Ecosystem Management 21% |
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share of resolved cohort carrying it; tags >=0.20 & >=3 members (max 12, junk dropped), tag_groups >=0.20 (cooccurrence, non-cross-cutting; max 8), industries >=0.20 (max 6), areas >=0.10 (max 6; areas are keyword-matched and sparse), capabilities L1 >=0.20 (max 8); derive-market-taxonomy.py
Leaders by position (provisional)
Provisional: grouped by position, depth compared within a position only. Distribution (cloud marketplaces) and iPaaS bridges are counted beside
position, never inside it. Unknown-builder listings are left out of position shares and counted here.
gravity 2 · other companies invest to build on it
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Discord |
52.1 |
31 |
24 / 7 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
partner-built 78%, ipaas-bridge 12%, covered 9% |
| WordPress |
51.8 |
223 |
215 / 8 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
partner-built 96%, ipaas-bridge 3% |
builds-on 4 · publishes apps on other platforms' stores
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Hootsuite |
55.0 |
16 |
0 / 16 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
ipaas-bridge 19%, contract 12%, standard 12%, builds-on-platform 50%, distribution 6% |
| Automattic |
42.1 |
7 |
0 / 7 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
ipaas-bridge 14%, standard 29%, builds-on-platform 43%, distribution 14% |
| Sprout Social |
34.4 |
9 |
0 / 9 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
ipaas-bridge 33%, standard 11%, builds-on-platform 44%, distribution 11% |
| Buffer |
29.4 |
5 |
0 / 5 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
ipaas-bridge 33%, builds-on-platform 33%, distribution 33% |
covered 6 · reached mainly through aggregators
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| LinkedIn |
53.7 |
3 |
0 / 3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
standard 33%, covered 67% |
| Facebook |
50.3 |
6 |
0 / 6 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
covered 67%, builds-on-platform 17%, distribution 17% |
| Pinterest |
39.8 |
12 |
0 / 12 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
ipaas-bridge 42%, standard 8%, covered 33%, builds-on-platform 17% |
| Snapchat |
38.7 |
3 |
0 / 3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
ipaas-bridge 33%, covered 67% |
| Twitch |
23.9 |
4 |
0 / 4 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
ipaas-bridge 50%, standard 25%, covered 25% |
| Substack |
9.6 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
covered 100% |
regulated 1 · named in a regulator's register or partners' contracts
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Kajabi |
10.8 |
32 |
0 / 32 |
0 |
0 |
31 |
ipaas-bridge 97%, contract 3% |
standard 5 · listed by a voluntary standard's own directory
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Medium |
36.4 |
3 |
0 / 3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
standard 33%, distribution 67% |
| Ghost |
24.6 |
42 |
0 / 42 |
1 |
1 |
34 |
ipaas-bridge 87%, standard 5%, builds-on-platform 3%, distribution 3%, unknown 3% |
| Patreon |
18.6 |
4 |
0 / 4 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
ipaas-bridge 75%, standard 25% |
| Flipboard |
17.2 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
standard 100% |
| PeerTube |
17.2 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
standard 100% |
mixed 4 · no single mode dominates
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| TikTok |
57.6 |
22 |
0 / 22 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
ipaas-bridge 23%, contract 32%, covered 18%, builds-on-platform 23%, unknown 5% |
| Telegram |
29.4 |
5 |
0 / 5 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
ipaas-bridge 40%, standard 20%, covered 20%, builds-on-platform 20% |
| Instagram |
29.3 |
3 |
0 / 3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
standard 33%, covered 33%, unknown 33% |
| Reddit |
18.8 |
8 |
0 / 8 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
ipaas-bridge 75%, standard 12%, covered 12% |
long-tail 2 · reached only through iPaaS bridges
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Mastodon |
5.0 thin |
2 |
0 / 2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
ipaas-bridge 50%, unknown 50% |
| Later |
2.5 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
ipaas-bridge 100% |
distribution 2 · only sells through cloud marketplaces
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| X |
19.2 thin |
2 |
0 / 2 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
distribution 100% |
| Linktree |
9.6 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
distribution 100% |
unknown 1 · every listing has an unknown builder
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Misskey |
2.5 thin |
1 |
0 / 1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
unknown 100% |
undeclared 6 · declares nothing we can read: no number
Workflows
No in-market workflows yet; bridges: 3 (3 not yet mapped to a capability).
In-market workflows only: a step on the market provider's side maps to this market's business capabilities (BC-4270, BC-400.60, BC-3780), and the partner is not a generic export/notify app. Other workflows are counted as bridges (including any whose steps do not resolve to a capability yet). Methodology.
Shape adoption report only — not weighted
Report only, not weighted (Kin, 2026-10-13): `compatible` edges are shape votes (the provider re-serves the anchor's contract). They are shown here and as 'declares compatibility' on a provider, and are excluded from depth, position and the own/covered declaration until they hold across four weekly snapshots.
Pattern: register. Shape gravity (counted by company, one edge per provider, the best
evidence kept): 9. Convergence in the cohort: 8 of
31 (25.8%) — cohort members (minus the anchor's family, mediators and rival shapes) with at least one compatible edge to the shape, read from evidence.
activitypub anchor ActivityPub · 9 adopters, 9 declared by the provider
By degree: declared-subset 5, declared-unqualified 2.
By evidence: own-docs 7.
- Rival shapes (own contracts, not re-served): Bluesky
- In the cohort, declaring nothing we can read: Automattic, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Discord, Twitch, YouTube Data, TikTok, Pinterest, Telegram, Facebook, Substack, Medium, Patreon, Kick, Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Later, Linktree, Kajabi
- Evidence ladder: conformance-register > own-docs > own-contract > own-blog > ae-structural. Degrees: full | declared-subset | declared-unqualified | interoperable-subset | same-vocabulary-own-path.
Snapshot timeline 2 weekly snapshot(s); nothing is weighted until it holds across four
| Date | Providers | Declared by the provider | Per shape (gravity / declared) |
|---|
| 2026-10-15 | 9 | 9 |
activitypub 9 / 9 |
| 2026-10-17 | 9 | 9 |
activitypub 9 / 9 |