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Let's say I just want a single-user instance that's in the style of Hacker News: text only. 1. I want to write text-only posts and have them distributed to who

Let's say I just want a single-user instance that's in the style of Hacker News: text only. 1. I want to write text-only posts and have them distributed to whoever is following me on Mastodon. 2. I want to receive all the posts of people I follow, and then just display/store the text and nothing else. Does something like this exist? Seems like it should be super slim and easy on resources.

zimpenfish 4y ago
Honk - https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk Minimalist and opinionated but is a single binary with an SQLite db. Source is, uh, esoteric but is definitely hackable (there's a whole bunch of forks.) Seems to work ok with a few minor weirdnesses[1]. Should clarify that it doesn't have an API - you can't use Mastodon clients against it (until/unless someone writes on) - it's basically web only. [1] I can't follow someone on my GotoSocial instance from honk but I'm pretty sure I've debugged that as being GTS's fault[2] rather than honk. [2] They made many odd design decisions which cause(d) issues with federating to other systems. [edit: clarify that honk as no API]
- boyter 4y ago
  The source is indeed esoteric, and sometimes hilarious. I have been using it to learn how the auth works against mastodon and some other parts of Activitypub. I do recommend it as a decent starting point to learn from.
- Ambroisie 4y ago
  Can you elaborate on some of gotosocial odd choices?
  - zimpenfish 4y ago
    The main one is how they handle keys[1] which broke federation with Pleroma for a while. There's also some weirdness with their HTTP signing which breaks Honk follow requests but I'm still tracking that down. [1] https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/1181#issuecomment-1331877047 https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/11...
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- jancsika 4y ago
  > [1] and [2] Ugh! Is there a fork that just uses whatever stupid key/keysigning choices are needed to play well with the maximal number of other federated thingies? I'm just going to be sending out a single post per day, tops. And perhaps reading whatever single digit number of people I decide to follow (maybe double if I'm really bored). If I have to generate and send private keys in the clear to get this done I honestly couldn't care less. Edit: clarification
  - zimpenfish 4y ago
    To clarify, it's GotoSocial that's the weird one - Honk seems to do the Right Thing.
    - jancsika 4y ago
      Does GotoSocial communicate successfully with Mastodon?
      - zimpenfish 4y ago
        Seems to be ok with Mastodon, Pleroma, and Akkoma from my experiences - although only with recent *omas.

zimpenfish 4y ago

Honk - https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk Minimalist and opinionated but is a single binary with an SQLite db. Source is, uh, esoteric but is definitely hackable (there's a whole bunch of forks.) Seems to work ok with a few minor weirdnesses[1]. Should clarify that it doesn't have an API - you can't use Mastodon clients against it (until/unless someone writes on) - it's basically web only. [1] I can't follow someone on my GotoSocial instance from honk but I'm pretty sure I've debugged that as being GTS's fault[2] rather than honk. [2] They made many odd design decisions which cause(d) issues with federating to other systems. [edit: clarify that honk as no API]

boyter 4y ago
The source is indeed esoteric, and sometimes hilarious. I have been using it to learn how the auth works against mastodon and some other parts of Activitypub. I do recommend it as a decent starting point to learn from.
Ambroisie 4y ago
Can you elaborate on some of gotosocial odd choices?
- zimpenfish 4y ago
  The main one is how they handle keys[1] which broke federation with Pleroma for a while. There's also some weirdness with their HTTP signing which breaks Honk follow requests but I'm still tracking that down. [1] https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/1181#issuecomment-1331877047 https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/11...
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jancsika 4y ago
> [1] and [2] Ugh! Is there a fork that just uses whatever stupid key/keysigning choices are needed to play well with the maximal number of other federated thingies? I'm just going to be sending out a single post per day, tops. And perhaps reading whatever single digit number of people I decide to follow (maybe double if I'm really bored). If I have to generate and send private keys in the clear to get this done I honestly couldn't care less. Edit: clarification
- zimpenfish 4y ago
  To clarify, it's GotoSocial that's the weird one - Honk seems to do the Right Thing.
  - jancsika 4y ago
    Does GotoSocial communicate successfully with Mastodon?
    - zimpenfish 4y ago
      Seems to be ok with Mastodon, Pleroma, and Akkoma from my experiences - although only with recent *omas.