Re:The Many Branches of the Fediverse
by simonw on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:20PM
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I don't think that works. The problem is that your server needs to be online 24/7, because any time someone you follow posts a message your server needs to be online and ready to accept effectively a webhook from them.
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Re:The Many Branches of the Fediverse
by zimpenfish on Saturday November 05, 2022 @02:46AM
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> your server needs to be online and ready to accept effectively a webhook from them.
The obvious answer there is "ActivityPub over SMTP". There is literally nothing that could go wrong![1]
(Basically a service which holds "ActivityPub postboxes" which collect events when you're offline and you pick them up in a batch when you're back online. The XMPP people already solved this one, IIRC.)
[1] Ok, there might be -some- problems.
Not sure if this might be related, but there is a project who proposes to use XMPP instead of ActivityPub for the ActivityStreams vocabulary: https://inqlab.net/2022-01-17-activitystreams-over-xmpp.html
That’s not what they were saying. Of course, your Mastodon instance need to be hosted on some remote Linux server in the cloud. But imagine you could use a mobile app, that provides the service of handling said instance, & exposes the front end client in the same mobile app? It’s totally feasible.