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The email analogy for how the fediverse works could be extended to the design of clients. The dominant paradigm (due to mastodon emulating twitter is the "time
by nologic01 3y ago
The email analogy for how the fediverse works could be extended to the design of clients.
The dominant paradigm (due to mastodon emulating twitter is the "timeline"). A major alternative mode of interacting with the fediverse could be a mailbox-like client.
Posts and threads of accounts and hashtags you follow would appear in the respective folders (boldface indicates new and unread).
The local and federated folders would offer the firehose view for those addicted to that.
In fact a sophisticated integrated client for email, rss and activitypub would be well placed to empower users manage their interaction with a re-decentralized web.
Hopefully the good people behind thunderbird, KDE apps etc have appetite to tackle this.
- kelsey9876543 3y agothe last thing i want is to be forced to use a twitter clone at work inside my email client, thanks but no thanks
- mariusor 3y agoIf you're interested in an ActivityPub that works like that, I work on one called FedBOX[1]. It doesn't have clients at the moment, but that's how I planned to have it used. https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox
- nologic01 3y agocool project. Go has not made it yet to the "frontpage" of the activitypub ecosystem [1] but exciting things might happen over time. [1] https://fedidb.org/software https://fedidb.org/software
- mariusor 3y agoYes, sadly the interest from operators has not been very high. :D I'm not terribly upset though, as I can't continue development at my own leisure, instead of the hectic pace that a very popular one requires. [edit] Regarding why the software is not present on fedidb, its because the server doesn't provide the full set of information that it requires. The only web-client for FedBOX, a link aggregator, is there however: https://fedidb.org/software/brutalinks https://fedidb.org/software/brutalinks
- unshavedyak 3y agoHow has your experience been on writing that? I too am experimenting with a Fedi impl. I mostly wanted rules, feeds that weren't just "has tag" but rules about has tag without tag with tag and etc, picking most popular tags within those rules, etcetc. All sorts of stuff that would probably be difficult to scale, but i'm targeting tiny instances so who cares.
- mariusor 3y agoWhen I started there were very few implementations that were going for something as general as I wanted, so I had to improvise a lot and invent concepts about how to handle activities. That being said, I'm not sure what you mean by rules.