Stephan SchwabFeb 27, 2024

I am trying to wrap my head around this and thought I might ask and get some straight answers about #activitypub

I want to build me a little system that sends out messages to different social media services. I’ve already done that for Mastodon and Twitter as a prototype.

Now my question is: I know Mastodon has an API and I can talk to the Mastodon server my account is on. That’s what I have already. What benefits do I get if I were to use #ActivityPub directly? I don’t want to build an instance nor have users. It’s basically like a bot what I want.

As you can see I have a rough idea and am asking for some suggestions about which route to take. Thank you.

Show threadmariusFeb 27, 2024
@snscaimito almost nobody accepts ActivityPub client requests, so your benefit would be 0 at the moment.
Show threadStephan SchwabFeb 27, 2024

@mariusor I see people creating an #ActivityPub server “as a single PHP script" and such. So I'm wondering what the motivation might be?

But then it's clear that it needs an identity and that means account somewhere. It's not going to be something different from "me” - the account I'm using to post this message.

Show threadmariusFeb 27, 2024
@snscaimito if you're planning to run such a server yourself maybe it's worth investigating, but you said you don't want to do that in the first post.
Show threadStephan SchwabFeb 27, 2024
@mariusor My blog runs on a server. I was wondering what else I could do from there.
Show threadmarius
@snscaimito I meant "server" as in "application that serves ActivityPub content", not hardware server.
Feb 27, 2024 at 7:51pmWeb
Show threadStephan SchwabFeb 27, 2024
@mariusor Ok. Understood.