cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53839835

I recommended the Fediverse to Brennan Kenneth Brown (the creator and developer of fanfiction.lol: https://fanfiction.lol/, which is an alternative to Ao3, but that uses the same OTW software: https://github.com/otwcode/otwarchive/).

And he told me to go ahead and implement, as well as create a pull request.

The issue is: I know almost NOTHING about the technical side of The Fediverse (lol).

fanfiction.lol Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/brennanbrown/fanfiction.lol

  • jonathan@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    21 hours ago

    Someone who only has programming basics is a beginner. ActivityPub is not a simple spec to implement.

    • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      It would surprise me if there isn’t already an implementation that can be adapted. E.g. as someone said, Mastodon uses Rails .

      • jonathan@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Adapt is the wrong word, you can’t just plug Mastodon into the side of this other app. At best someone could learn and borrow from the Mastodon implementation. And that’s still not a beginner level challenge.

        • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          I meant see what AP (Activitypub) aimplementation Mastodon is using, and adapt that implementation, not the entirety of Mastodon. In fact quick web search immediately finds there are multiple pre-packaged Ruby gems for Activitypub, so just use one.

          I looked at the Wikipedia article about AP and it’s kind of bureaucratic but I don’t see much difficult. Yeah it’s not suited to a raw beginning programmer but it shouldn’t take a big expert. OP, have you done much programming?

          I see on Wikipedia that there’s a new thing called “AT Protocol” that’s supposed to improve on AP. That might also be worth looking into.