I just got around to taking a look at the Fediverse Pasture.
Nice! I got a few of the built-in instances running and then added my own in just a few hours.
I didn't have to change a lot - mostly the same "http" vs "https" stuff that other projects needed.
I've had interop problems with both #Bovine and #Firefish in the past, and I've hardly tested against #Mitra at all. It looks like the Pasture will let me make some progress here. Thanks @helge !
...the more pissed I get that:
✅ Everyone isn't implementing this - and I KNOW y'all all use JSON-LD, otherwise what is your SEO doing
✅ Everyone isn't all about this or an equivalent
✅ We weren't all implementing this 5 years ago when it came out
Tumblr releases StreamBuilder as open source, their framework for building and displaying timelines of content. Might be useful to my #FediDev and #ActivityPubDev friends.
Yeah idk it’s completely bonkers to me that the people who make this site don’t allow quote posts because of some ideology of harassment, but don’t have the ability to disable replies. This is the latest effort I could find. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762
@renchap@shantini@siracusa seems to me this work, to control reply sources, is going to be needed, with Meta embracing #ActivityPub and also if we want meaningful moderation on federated #Lemmy and #kbin.
At the very least, the protocol changes should be planned out and expected behavior added to @activitypubtestsuite ...or somebody else will implement it as they see fit
So, suppose I have an idea for an #ActivityPub implementation that guarantees more control over content and more privacy.
Who here knows enough about ActivityPub to help me break down the idea to detect any pitfalls and discuss viability? I could see myself coding a basic implementation but I don't have nearly enough experience to really assess its viability.
If you know anyone who could help me review a theoretical proof of concept on a really high level, please let me know.
@activitypubtestsuite - question for the group: even if we were not to use it’s codebase, is there value in getting the old ActivityPub.rocks test suite live again? Just to see the old test in action?
Hi @evan@cwebber @pfefferle
Timely question: Does anyone know the status of a formal or informal building out an #ActivtyPub test suite, akin to the one used to test http://webmention.rocks but for Acitivity pub.
I know the activitypub.rocks effort ended & I see this one that seemed to evolve from that but has been derelict for a while.
Initial federated contact made! My local dev instance has just made its first calls to a remote #Mastodon instance (via #WebFinger discovery) to retrieve a remote user account!
One small step for #NodeBB, ah... also one small step for the #Fediverse I guess.
@ajsadauskas Across the internet, there's a host of niche communities on message boards and web forums, using platforms such as phpBB and its various competitors.
Is there scope to get these communities on the Fediverse?
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been trying out Lemmy (lemmy.ml ), which is basically a Reddit-like platform on the Fediverse. (For those reading this on Mastodon, this post is actually a reply to a post on Lemmy, meaning you can read it on Lemmy, on Mastodon, or elsewhere!)
It's shown me that the concept of a Fediverse -connected discussion forum certainly can work.
So is there scope to either add ActivityPub to any existing message board software platforms?
Alternatively, is there scope to develop a fediverse-connected general purpose message board platform?
Lemmy shows how Fediverse-connected message boards can work. So is it time for a Fediverse-connected general purpose message board platform (like phpBB)? Is anyone working on this?
I'll elaborate on my thoughts further in my reply below, but I'm keen to hear what everyone thinks of this concept