@devnull good to hear! how much resources is it requiring? because from what I've always heard (and some experience running an instance a while back) it's quite demanding (though I think that especially comes to play when starting to federate a lot with the main instance, and with IRC etc)...
What if: an open-source clone of The Sims. Open-ended domestic humanoid simulation game. Differentiate from the commercial offering by moving the design in a different direction, deemphasizing built-in goals in favor of stronger end-user programmability. A platform for experimenting with a more humanistic programming model.
@fool Nice! There's still a lot to do at this point so any help would be appreciated. What specialties or interests of yours would you most like to bring to a project like this?
If I had unlimited time for neato personal projects, one of them would be a single-user Activitypub app, designed to run anywhere and interoperate nicely with as many Fediverse apps as possible, supporting use only by its administrator and with a user interface optimized for this situation.
@mayel No worries! :) I like how simple it is, how you can have the live preview next to it, how it does nice syntax highlighting, has little good customisations of the view... It also supports reStructuredText and Textile, but I don't know them. Still discovering features, but simple is key here :)
BTW if he isn't already I suggest monitoring error fare sites like https://hacktheflight.net where you can often find flights at 1/3 of the normal price
I've been developing this project little by little as well, still alpha quality but has a bunch of features I at least find useful: https://gitlab.com/mayel/dataverse
I invite ALL federation developers to hop into #social on irc.w3.org for conversations around the social Web. It's where a few discussions on #ActivityPub discussions occur.
I know that we have http://socialhub.network/ for this as well and I encourage the devs to use these places in conjunction to this one for conversations for historical and open discussion reasons.