@wagtail its a great idea as it would make potentially any django / wagtail installation a first class citizen of the fediverse, expanding functionality in various novel ways
There are already several django based activitypub servers (I am aware of #funkwhale, #takahẽ , #socialhome) and related #python projects (#bovine, #piefed) but it seems there is zero code re-use among them.
If you haven't heard, sadly, #ChirpSocial, one of the popular #ActivityPub “groups” platform, is shutting down “probably” on February 29th.
In an email they sent to admins, the owner and developer can no longer support https://chirp.social financially as they failed to find a new job after they were laid off by #Google last year.
This reminds us the importance of having a built-in groups feature, and one where the groups feature actually federates.
Back in 2008, when the #Fediverse was born, we did have a built-in federated groups in #Laconica / #StatusNet (today known as #GNUsocial). We used bang (!) instead of at (@). A built-in groups feature is more stable as established instances can host them.
Today, we have #Friendica and #Hubzilla (as well as #Streams-based instances) to fill in that, as groups is a built-in feature in those software products. It's just a matter of finding an instance that's open to hosting groups for any topic for the ActivityPub protocol.
That said, any Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams-based instances you suggest for groups?
Awesome. You could follow/join the PieFed meta community although as you say posts there are likely to be lost in the flood of other posts. You could follow me on on Mastodon where I pretty much exclusively post about this project - @rimu. Or pop your email address into the form at https://rimu.geek.nz/piefed-comms/?p=subscribe or join the matrix room at https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-community:matrix.org
@javi I've been using ngrok.com, which makes it very easy to temporarily give something running locally a domain name that anyone from outside (including other servers, obvs) can use to access your site/app and send Activitys.
e.g. https://piefed.ngrok.app is running off the laptop in my office. Any code edits immediately take effect and I can watch errors scroll by in my IDE in real time, set breakpoints, etc. Very effective.
Maybe don't call people [by a label which designates membership in a more powerful, dominant group whose lives are treated as the baseline "norm" and who happen to have far greater power to impose and enforce oppressive social norms in a heavily socially stratified society]?
PieFed is a link sharing platform so every post has a 'url' field. By embedding the post url into the RSS feed entry, we get images in our feed if the posts have images. The example I gave in the earlier toot uses images but it could be anything, including video or audio.
Podcasts are just RSS feeds with audio files. This means #PieFed is also a federated #PodCast platform - every community is also a podcast, if the things you post in the community are just links to mp3 files.
It’s crazy how much of the comments about #Subllinks on the threadiverse are mad that the author is using #Java or just complaining that they chose to build another implementation.
Most of it seems to be #Lemmy users who think that #kbin, #mbin, #piefed, etc don’t exist and no other federated link aggregator should exist.
Very often when encountering an open source codebase you are left on your own to figure it out. Documentation is often limited to installation / compilation instructions.
With the following video I am trying to ease the onboarding process for new developers. I assume you already know Python, HTML and CSS. I start with a brief introduction to Flask and then move on to how forms work, routes, database interaction, frontend, background tasks and more.
This video will compliment the written documentation (still to come – very soon!).
Be sure to check the Link below in the link that @jeze left and sign up!
Pretty kewl, IMO. Thanks for sharing Elley :) it looks really nice and I created an account for myself. Seamless federation with the others too - very nice :)
There are quite a few communities that are entirely image posts so presenting them as a vertical list of thumbnails doesn’t really make the best of what is there.
To improve on that I’ve made use of the common web design pattern called ‘masonry’, where the images are arraigned like bricks in a wall. Check it out:
On each tile there is the title of the post at the bottom which can be clicked on to view the post and it’s comments. This footer area could be improved with voting buttons and perhaps the number of comments, in future.
This doesn’t work as well for meme communities as memes often contain a lot of text, which gets squished. Perhaps there needs to be a 2 or 3 column version with larger thumbnails.
The PieFed chatroom can be used to discuss ideas, fix server issues or shoot the breeze. Also check out the ActivityPub Community on Matrix, for discussions about other fediverse software.
Have you even tried #Piefed? Piefed.social is:
"A lemmy/kbin clone written in Python with Flask.
-Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to. No fancy design patterns or algorithms.
-Easy setup, easy to manage - few dependencies and extra software required.
-AGPL.
-First class moderation tools."
It's actually really quite nice, and I don't hear much noise about it. Go give this project a look at https://piefed.social.
Rethinking Moderation: A Call for Trust Level Systems in the Fediverse
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/5772572...
Does PieFed work with client apps like Memmy?
I'm trying to add my PieFed account to Memmy (an iOS Lemmy client). I was able to add my midwest.social account as expected....