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I started a go project to create a link aggregator similar to HN and old reddit, but built on top of ActivityPub. It's targeted at small to medium communities,

I started a go project to create a link aggregator similar to HN and old reddit, but built on top of ActivityPub. It's targeted at small to medium communities, but at the same time it can reach outward through the federation mechanism that ActivityPub provides. Outside of immediate support to intercommunicate with other instances of its own platform, it will handle interactions from the larger fediverse at large: Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc. Currently this is a one man project, namely me, and I would welcome support in any area that people could help: development, design, documentation, graphics, copy, etc. The project can be found at https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr, and if anyone is interested there is a mailing list where people can get in touch: https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go Some details about the project can be found on its wiki: https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/index.md https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/index.... [edit] for the curious, there's also a demo instance at https://littr.me https://littr.me

Artistry121 5y ago
Nice. I'm gonna send you an email. I can help in design, docs, and want to build some things on top of ActivityPub. Maybe we can help each other. Want to reach out to me via my email please?
Tmpod 5y ago
Cool to see more AP projects! I assume you're aware of Lemmy; maybe you could acknowledge it on the README/wiki and explain in what way the platforms differ. From what I understand, Lemmy is more reddit-like while littr is more HN-like. Is this correct?
- mariusor 5y ago
  Yes, I am aware of Lemmy, however my project predates it by quite a while, and has a more comprehensive approach when it comes to the ActivityPub spec. They had the good fortune to receive a lot of publicity, which resulted in a lot more man power and some well deserved grants which helped them a long at a faster pace. I don't know why I need to acknowledge it on my project though. Users that are interested can click around and see what's different and which one is more to their liking. It will probably be mentioned in the wiki at some point, as it's one of the immediate targets for federating with other projects.

Artistry121 5y ago

Nice. I'm gonna send you an email. I can help in design, docs, and want to build some things on top of ActivityPub. Maybe we can help each other. Want to reach out to me via my email please?

Tmpod 5y ago

Cool to see more AP projects! I assume you're aware of Lemmy; maybe you could acknowledge it on the README/wiki and explain in what way the platforms differ. From what I understand, Lemmy is more reddit-like while littr is more HN-like. Is this correct?

mariusor 5y ago
Yes, I am aware of Lemmy, however my project predates it by quite a while, and has a more comprehensive approach when it comes to the ActivityPub spec. They had the good fortune to receive a lot of publicity, which resulted in a lot more man power and some well deserved grants which helped them a long at a faster pace. I don't know why I need to acknowledge it on my project though. Users that are interested can click around and see what's different and which one is more to their liking. It will probably be mentioned in the wiki at some point, as it's one of the immediate targets for federating with other projects.