moodlenet are hiring an elixir dev for fediverse work again (https://blog.moodle.net/2019/were-hiring-a-new-backend-developer/), so if you want to do that check it out.

They have been working on CommonsPub for a while, a 'generic' (lol) ActivityPub server that has been forked from Pleroma quite some time ago.

No the blog post has this:
"There’s several parts to MoodleNet’s federation: receiving or fetching activities from other instances, interacting with them, and of course pushing new activities to followers. Alex Castaño, the backend developer who joined us at the end of September 2018, has almost completed the first part of this equation. He’s decided to move on at the end of May, which means we’re looking for a new backend developer to complete the work on federation."

So their fork can 'almost' federate? What the heck are they doing?
@lain wao, they forked a project that has been federating for at least 1.5 years and after half a year of hard work







it federates!
@rin i don't wanna be too schadenfreudy, sometimes things don't work out like you plan too, especially in software dev. Still, it seems there would have been a better way to do it.
@lain really weird that they made no attempts to communicate with the upstream, but oh well, we'll see how it works out
@rin @lain Did any of yall reach out to them?