Mastodawn

What if... you had one Fedi account on a generic headless #ActivityPub server that simply hosts and federates your data... and had C2S UIs for microblogging, long form writing, media editing and sharing, link aggregation, games, fitness tracking, and so on, that all used that same Fedi account. Technically, it's a similar concept as ATProto (but no relay and app view) and Solid Pods (but no RDF).

It seems possible... if we can improve the AP C2S API/protocol sufficiently.

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marius Feb 25

@steve I've built the server part already, that was 5 years ago. Still waiting for people with the skills to build the UIs though...

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Lorraine Lee Feb 26

@mariusor @steve Is not GoToSocial server-only? Is your server accessible with Semaphore Social?

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marius Feb 26

@lori I don't know what semaphore social is, and I don't know if goto social is server only (probably not in the way that I meant - where "the server" is an ActivityPub C2S server)

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marius

@lori so, Semaphore social seems to be is the project from which Pinafore started. And they are both Mastodon clients, not ActivityPub client to server clients. So no, my server does not support the Mastodon client API.