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Brendan Enrick

💻🌮Nov 13, 2022

Was anyone realistically thinking about creating a #dotnet implementation of #mastadon ?

I sorta started on it, but wasn't going to continue if there's a #Microsoft led effort.

If there's no existing project, I'll try to gather some collaborators and continue.

Who's interested in trying to get a #dotnet7 version going?

#OSS #foss

Please boost to help me find people or a project! Thanks!

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Eliot Lash Nov 13, 2022

@brendoneus I think the optimal way for new Mastodon client libraries to be written would be for someone to tackle https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/1404 to hook up a tool to automatically generate an #OpenAPI spec. Then tools like openapi-generator could be used to generate a client. Very little code would need to be written by hand, and it would benefit the creation of clients in any language supported by the generator. #MastoDev

API Documentation via Swagger / RAML / Others · Issue #1404 · mastodon/mastodon

In order to provide more accessible informations about REST API usage, it would be great to have an API specification in Swagger (http://swagger.io/) or RAML (http://raml.org/). Great job ^^

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Victor Hogemann

@Eliot_L @brendoneus perhaps we can start by implementing the ActivityPub specification, and then moving into cloning the Mastodon feature set?

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub

ActivityPub

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.