davidfowl 
I'm feeling like I need to write a mastodon clone (or something like it) in ASP.NET Core and self-host it.
Steve @ardalis Smith 
@davidfowl @brendoneus was just talking about that as well
Brendan Enrick 
💻🌮@ardalis @davidfowl yeah I was asking about this a week ago.
Didn't hear back, so we started a project and started talking/planning a bit.
Brendan Enrick :love: 💻🌮 (@[email protected])
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! :love:
@ardalis @davidfowl the biggest part to decide for this is whether you want it to integrate so well that the apps and front-ends just work, or whether it's just another fediverse app that integrates.
David Edmiston@brendoneus @ardalis @davidfowl I think replicating the Mastodon client API so existing apps work is a good idea. The one downside is that it might be a bit of a moving target; I'm not sure how quickly it evolves, but it might be a moving target. I checked into this earlier tonight and it does not appear that they publish Swagger definitions for the API.
Chalk me up as another (NE Ohio, even :)) dev who'd be interested in pitching in, time permitting.
@edmistond awesome! We've just started looking at this.
Jesse Liberty@brendoneus @edmistond What is smilodon?
@jesseliberty @edmistond some of us wanted to build a mastodon compatible application in #DotNet and #AspNetCore .