chris_hayes, 1 hour ago to fediverse

I gotta admit, I am very much enjoying @ghost's ActivityPub progress newsletter.

Last week they were having an existential crisis, this week they're saying it's our fault as the users, that ActivityPub is so hard.
(I'm paraphrasing the most dramatic part without context for the read receipts)

Tumblr promised ActivityPub support and then disappeared for 2 years. Ghost promised ActivityPub support, and then their engineers appear each week to tell us how they regret that decision.
#activitypub

From Ghost ActivityPub newsletter, on May 25, 2024. Heading, "What's new with ActivityPub?", with the paragraph below, "Last week we promised you earth-shattering innovation in the form of database persistence. Did we achieve that? We did not. So, like every tired product manager in the history of ever, I will now attempt to explain that away and still sound totally optimistic - leading you to believe that our initial time estimates remain both accurate and relevant." Not in this screenshot, but further down they also blame the users for why ActivityPub is so hard, haha.

martijn, 7 hours ago to fediverse

Writing the most basic #activitypub implementation in #php that is compatible with shared hosting. I've seen some other great projects, but I needed a "call this function with a simple message" functionality for some existing websites

dansup, 10 hours ago to fediverse

One thing I want to point out about https://pubkit.net is that I know a service like this could be easily abused!

This is why you will have to verify ownership of servers you want to test against

It can be a text file or DNS record, and in special cases, I can make exceptions for devs who want to test against instances they can't publicly verify

The point is, PubKit will be opt-in, and won't require a fediblock, services like these can be done right 😎

#pubkit #activityPub