You Can't Follow Me

Re:You Can't Follow Me by lambdaone on Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:01AM (#38950597)

"Not being a protocol you tack onto your code in an afternoon" suggests that there is a big hole in the ActivityPub ecosystem; it should absolutely be possible to do that. You can, for example, write a basic HTTPS application server in an afternoon in Python, because libraries to implement all the hard bits have already been packaged by someone else. And similar functionality exists in other languages.

A similar level of cross-platform library support for ActivityPub would greatly ease its adoption across the universe of Internet applications.

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Re:You Can't Follow Me by whstl on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:49AM (#38951529)

I remember about 10-15 years ago there used be packages aimed at supporting ActivityPub, or whatever it was called back them. One of them, for Ruby, was even maintained by Steve Klabnik of Rust fame.

Perhaps there's something like that now again, but last I checked, the protocol got quite a bit more complex in its requirements, so there was no ready-to-go option, everything required a lot of manual testing and adaptation.

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Re:You Can't Follow Me by jeroenhd on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:45AM (#38953781)

There are a whole bunch of small projects that turn an RSS feed into ActivityPub posts. In theory, a well-placed JSON file (the webfinger part) could direct anyone trying to subscribe to the blog to a dedicated fediverse server.

The protocol has been wrapped a whole bunch of times in various languages, but I don't know what protocol this particular blog uses, so I can't comment on what would be appropriate.

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