#social 2018-06-25
2018-06-25 UTC
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dansup It will be a good week ;)
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# fr33domlover Hi people
# fr33domlover Anyone knows if ActivityPub servers generally limit the event types the accept?
# fr33domlover Say if I want to POST a Create of some custom object type
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# vasilakisfil hey folks, is there a mastadon-compatible activitypub standalone, single user (i.e. without the federation part) that anyone can use in their personal VPS ?
# vasilakisfil single user app*
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# technomancy vasilakisfil: pleroma is supposed to be the go-to "mastadon-lite" that works with very little resources
# vasilakisfil alright I ll take a look
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# puckipedia in the meantime, I'm also working on an activitypub server that is supposed to be pretty light weight
# puckipedia it does have federation, obviously, because else it'd just be fancy blog software
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# vasilakisfil puckipedia if I am not mistaken, without federation it's still more than just a blog, right ? You can speak with mastadon instances/users, webmention, linked data notifications and of course have a nice curated feed yourself from your streams.
# puckipedia nope, federation is the entire concept of connecting with the other servers and notifications
# vasilakisfil wow really? I didn't get that by going through the spec
# puckipedia federation is the server-to-server protocol
# vasilakisfil ok I see
# vasilakisfil I just thought from a developer's perspective federation => support multiple users for a single instance
# puckipedia the activitypub spec doesn't actually have a conecpt of 'server'
# vasilakisfil I see, ok I ll go through the spec again (in case you know the author blogposts like https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/ are super helpful because a spec is.. a spec)
# vasilakisfil puckipedia is your lib code public ? just to track the development/code
# puckipedia not yet
# vasilakisfil ok cool, what language are you working on ?
# puckipedia rust
# vasilakisfil ah cool
# vasilakisfil yeah if federation is necessary part of activitypub, it makes sense to first build a complete lib :P
# puckipedia I mean, you can write a local-only activitypub server, but..
# puckipedia somewhat less useful
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# vasilakisfil I have my domain as vasilakisfil.social (vasilakisfil is my username in all social services). Given that activitypub dictates username@instance.name, how do you suggest formating my webfinger ? vasilakisfil@vasilakisfil.social doesn't make much sense
# vasilakisfil are there any best practices around that? like default@vasilakisfil.social
# puckipedia I would sugest @nick@domain always, even if single-user
# vasilakisfil ok
# puckipedia e.g. Mastodon shows all mentions as @nick even if on another server
# vasilakisfil ah cool
# puckipedia so else you'd be stuck with '@me so how's the weather today'
# vasilakisfil haha