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@benpate One of the reasons we're supporting NodeBB is their adoption of ActivityPub, and @julian is leading efforts around forum-based AP implementations if you want to follow it.

I think interconnectedness is a double-edge sword, so my own work in the community space right now is focused on private community organizing with only very selective feed-based connections.

@linc This is fantastic, and more than enough for me to get my head around the basic ideas. Thank you!

I'll try to get up to speed on what you've been doing, and then see how it might fit with my own work. Would you say this could work for "non-forum" software, too, such as a regular Mastodon server?

@benpate "Non-forum" yes, but not really Masto. The fediverse/AP is organized around *individual* data sovereignty, which is great, but is solving portability at scale using a universally-recognized *identity*. You can move YOUR account, but not everyone else's, because context is global.

Nitro Porter is trying to solve *collective* data sovereignty — as a group, what do we want to do with our shared data — which doesn't make sense outside *private* context.

I am not sure Mastodon translates.

@benpate Sure: https://github.com/prosembler/nitro-porter

My biggest wish for any project is to build in their own tools for recalculating derived data — post counts, point totals, last post in a topic, etc.

Most apps assume you've never used any other platform or that their calculated data could be wrong. It's a huge time sink to "fix" data handling for them in an export.

To add support to Nitro Porter directly, there's a guide in the docs: https://nitroporter.org/develop.html

@webbeef You're a new web browser? Neat! 👍

I don't think we have a “just do this one thing” solution for browser builders in ActivityPub right now. FedCM is a thing that people seem to be working on, but I gather it's a future target.

Maybe you'd like to incorporate the functionality of https://streetpass.social natively, I think that'd be a low barrier start.

Or talk to @benpate about what native browser support for Activity Intents might look like. I hear he doesn't have enough to do yet. 😇

@julian @smallcircles

Fascinating idea! And stuff like this is going to spark many more..

Would you Follow the book in order to see when it’s back on the shelf?

@benpate @julian@activitypub.space @smallcircles In case you haven't come across it yet, https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03/12/activitypub/ will be a fun read!

@julian @benpate

> who says fediverse accounts need to be people?

Certainly not me. I'm thinking on an actor-based service-oriented fedi, which more closely represents actor model. Where the social network is a pure social graph of addressible actors, that can be introspected for the services they provide.

Yes, a book might be an actor, as well as the shelf :)