Anyone who knows #react or some other front end type stuff want to help me with a small project? Looking to created a frontend for #gotosocial (#golang powered #mastodon like service). Just something super basic.
Just curious, according to the #gotosocial page while it does not provide it's own web client, one can use any mastodon client with it: https://joinmastodon.org/apps
To understand them better, I will not stop with just reading and documenting, but might write a app (server, client, bot) to solidify my understanding.
There are different approaches to developing apps for #fediverse
• a typical mastodon app implements both front-end and back-end
• #gotosocial type of apps implement only backend api (along with cli all in #Golang )
• apps like @sengi_app are only at the front-end
• @brianmmdev is implementing a fediverse app via #serverless model
As mastodon picks up steam, we will see different types of apps
I've tried avoiding talking about #Tumblr directly (though there was far less reason to do so, before recently).
Making any project a foil to another existing work will always define it in terms of that other work and, I think, comes off as a waste of everyone else's time.
But I've been seeing a lot of excitement around Tumblr adding #ActivityPub and it has me…Concerned™.
Not due to the size of an instance this would add to the network (though it's a fair concern) nor due to possibly making
corporation (though that /is/ relevant) but we've started developing federated software that we, collectively, can own with no binding need for corporate reliance and…we're already discussing trading that away?
Like, – unless #Tumblr open-sources, /first/ (and I mean #AGPL or equivalent; not even just #GPL), and I'm able to run it on my own server – going to #Tumblr or recommending people to them is just losing the ownership you would otherwise have with a #PeerTube, #GoToSocial, or #BookWyrm.
Thus far the easiest #activitypub service I’ve installed has been #gotosocial, followed by #mastodon, and I wasn’t actually able to get #pleroma (or any forks) to build properly. I’m really rooting for the @gotosocial team and am looking forward to seeing how it progresses.
Tried #gotosocial as the backend instance. It's behaving a little funny and it wasn't any easier to install than I thought it would be from the original #mastodon implementation. So I'm ganna start trying out all of these different ones to see which one I like the best.
@dudenas not dismissing pleroma and gotoSocial etc at all. :) I am very glad these options exist. When I chose to self host in 2020, pleroma was still very new and most of the current alternatives didn't exist yet. Today I am not sure if I might have made a different choice.
but the smaller user base can be a draw back. this post is about options, not dismissing any of them :)
Gotosocial is considered alpha, Pleroma seems to be mature, and quite feature-rich.
Neither of them has properly developed account migration, which is a deal breaker for me. In other words, if you create an account on Gotosocial or Pleroma instance, you might get to stay there, or leave your followers.
@joshuaCrewe It works as good as any other standalone frontend that talks to Mastodon-like APIs, like #Pinafore for example. You can try it out at https://fe.soapbox.pub . It's just that #gotosocial is still missing some endpoints for bookmarks, tags or muting which can cause minor issues (it's still alpha).
What software do people recommend I host if I want to make my own fediverse activity pub server? I was thinking to host pleroma but I would like to get other peoples recommendations.
Aha, nice. I'd personally say there's value to getting more diversity in the kind of apps that are hosted, and then indeed #Pleroma is an option. But also you can consider forks of #Mastodon, such as #Hometown with local-only posting or #Ecko.
If you want to go modern, innovative but still a tad experimental, then #GoToSocial may be a very interesting choice. Bit more experimental still you get to #Bonfire.