Making !GNUsocial work with #ActivityPub is the right thing to do, but I'm not sure that removing OStatus is. Does #Mastodon allow transport protocols to be added as plugins?
@dragnucs I disagree. Once your federated network survives one severe #bifurcation (the #Pump.io split), you know it can survive others. The #ActivityPub addition is still somewhere in the process, but I doubt that defederating from the #OStstus part of the network would speed it up. @gargron @heluecht
2019 is going to bring some interesting works from this agency.
As mentioned in @jalcine's Patreon post; #Koype will have a hub that those who want to provide Koype-as-a-service in the most ideal format. Expect more on that soon.
An initial call-for-testers is coming for #ActivityDesk, a native #Qt#ActivityPub client targeting F/LOSS environments.
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Haven't really thought about it too much just yet, but I want to put the question out there and read what you think : what if Facebook or Twitter started using #ActivityPub (and other protocols)? How would you feel about that? And in general, about big corporations / proprietary programs starting to interact with the Fediverse? Is there something in the AP specs that allows us to reliably identify where the activity comes from? To maybe block it? Would it further their monopoly, or the opposite?
@kris good question, I haven't tested either yet. #Osada definitely supports #ActivityPub, and #FunkWhale aims to support full AP federation, so maybe? If you try it, let me know how it works out :)
@drequivalent I'm sure patches / pull requests are welcome ;) In fact, after the recent discussions about helping #Dreamwidth support #ActivityPub, I wonder if there's a place for a crack team of federation ninjas to kick into action whenever a project wants to improve their federation feature set? @funkwhale
We anticipated then that #ActivityPub would one day allow federated search among MediaGoblin instances (still waiting for that BTW ;) but we never imagined a new package doing that *and* using #WebTorrent to allow users help instances stream videos, as they watch. This is a good example of why I'm so hopeful about the future and why fatalistic predictions are so often wrong. There's just so much that can't be predicted, no matter how much you know about the present state of a system #ChaosTheory
@valerauko part of this may be because we're still federating with some apps over #OStatus, because we're still waiting for their #ActivityPub implementations to be rolled out. All I'm saying is it's a really important part of providing a smooth #UX across a diversely federated network. @aral
@aral sure does, and I notice that broken threading puts a real limiter on the quality of discussions on the #fediverse. I'd really like to see all the #ActivityPub apps really focus in on getting threading working smoothly across the whole fediverse, and maybe write up implementation guidelines to be put up on places like activitypub.rocks, so new implementers can get it right too. I'm on a Mastodon server, and I use #Pinafore.social as my client. They mostly reconstruct threads pretty well.
♲ @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz: #Dreamwidth have expressed interest in implementing #ActivityPub, and are asking for detailed information on how to do that. Any suggestions for links to give them? github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/…
@adfeno do you know if anyone from Kallithea is involved in the discussions for the #ForgeFed extensions to #ActivityPub, to allow forges to join together as a federated GH replacement?
@xj9#ForgeFed is a specification, not a software package, so it's not as easy to throw up a demo. Like formalizing #ActivityPub itself, it will take time, because people from a number of existing projects have to hash out how their existing stacks will interact. I think it will be worth the wait, but the proof is in the pudding I guess ;-) @Wolf480pl@alcinnz
#MobiliZon le projet de gestion de communautés et d'événements fonctionne avec #ActivityPub. C'est le nouveau projet de @Framasoft en cours de financement. Je soutiens à 100% ce projet et ai hâte de voir les premiers résultats 😀 https://joinmobilizon.org/fr/
Is there anything like an #ActivityPub based #Wikipedia alternative? I think this would be a really cool project, and if it doesn't exist, it should be created. I would be happy to help write the concept, but most likely not the programming side.
If you are wondering why this is important, the gist of it is that Wikipedia is also a centralized platform, just as much as Twitter or Facebook. This causes various problems, like administrators having too much power and banning users they don't like. Articles are generally written from a capitalist/neoliberal perspective, while leftist viewpoints are censored.
"The Mastodon project is excited that Nextcloud users can now join the fediverse, potentially growing the decentralized web by an order of magnitude", through #ActivityPub.
So much more goodies in #Nextcloud 15 too, like video chat inside collaborative document editing, better full text search (searching everything, not just files), etc.), faster, more secure.