Notices by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social)

GreatApe is a conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo).

Here is what the GreatApe login screen looks like on a mobile-phone web-browser.

With GreatApe you do NOT have to create a separate GreatApe account.

With GreatApe you use your existing account on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, or PeerTube to login.

(We plan to support more Fediverse and DeSo logins later.)

#DeSo #Fediverse #GreatApe #Mastodon #Misskey #PeerTube #Pixelfed

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GreatApe is a conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo).

Here is what it is like to log into GreatApe.

In this case, using Mastodon.

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#DeSo #Fediverse #GreatApe #Mastodon

@silverpill

So, imagine this scenario —

A person goes to GreatApe.

Logs into GreatApe with their Mastodon account.

Starts a new GreatApe video conversation immediately.

GreatApe create a new post on their Mastodon account that includes a URL where people can watch the GreatApe conversation live.

Conversation happens.

Conversation finishes.

GreatApe posts the video recording of the conversation to their Mastodon account

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The same is true for Pixelfed, Misskey, and PeerTube, too

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@silverpill

So, I started imagining GreatApe as something that works with other Fediverse software. That complements it (rather than competes).

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@silverpill

Initially GreatApe was designed to be a fully stand-alone platform — comparable to Mastodon, PeerTube, etc.

But, later I changed my mind.

Later, began to think that — it would be better for the Fediverse if back-end servers and front-end clients were not only decoupled, but separate projects.

And, better if we the Fediverse had a number of plug-in systems.

And, back-ends were broken into separate services.

Etc.

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@silverpill

GreatApe does speak ActivityPub in certain places.

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@silverpill

Yes 🙂

GreatApe is a conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo).

After you log into GreatApe (using your Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, PeerTube, etc account) — you either schedule live conversation for some time in the future, or have the live conversation happen immediately.

(Most will probably schedule it for the future.)

#DeSo #Fediverse #GreatApe

GreatApe is a conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo).

When logging into GreatApe, you don't have to create an account on GreatApe.

Instead you can use your Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, or PeerTube account.

That is what @muhammadzaidali is working on right now.

#DeSo #Fediverse #GreatApe #Mastodon #Misskey #PeerTube #Pixelfed

@silverpill @chrastecky

I am trying to do some validation on content HTTP POSTed to an accounts outbox.

And, if there is a problem, return an appropriate error message.

@silverpill

Is something that is using the client-server API that HTTP POSTs to an account's outbox supposed to have an "id" field?

(I thought it wasn't. But perhaps I am mistaken.)

Currently, the way I am determining if content is valid ActivityPub / ActivityStreams content is —

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Determining if it is valid JSON.

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Checking if it has a "type" field.

And that is it.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #JSONLD

@silverpill

I suspect they are trying to be polite.

I have now heard the Bluesky CTO state why they didn't go with ActivityPub (at least) 3 times.

Each time, the wording was a bit different, but the message seemed to be the same.

He gave one technical reason, and one social reason.

Given how much time they spent developing their protocol, I suspect they could have solved the technical problem (in much less time).

Which just leaves the social reason.

Which I suspect is the actual reason.

@nextgraph @silverpill

Maybe a polite way of expressing their "social reason" is —

They felt very, very unwelcomed.

Although, perhaps a bit more of a direct description is captured by what I paraphrased, from someone at a recent Bluesky conference, here (at this URL):

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114208310829137604

That paraphrasing is about developers (rather than the Bluesky team), but — my understanding is, I think the Bluesky team also had the same feeling.

@silverpill

The CTO of Bluesky (Paul Frazee) seemed to be encouraging people to access the PDSes (personal data servers) directly, rather than getting everything through Bluesky's Firehose Relay.

I did see one app that was doing that now.

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That makes Bluesky feel a bit more like a Fediverse architecture.

@dansup

Looks cool.

What type of camera is that?

@silverpill

What if the Object type is 'Audio', 'Image', or 'Video'?

There might not be a 'content' field.

Previews in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams is what should bind the disparate software and user-experiences on the Fediverse.

Not the ActivityStreams 'Note'.

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Previews using 'icon', 'image', 'name', 'summary', etc.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #MastodonInTheRoom #SocialWeb

@dansup

Will stories show up in the user's ActivityPub outbox?

I.e., could someone not using Pixelfed potentially see someone else's story, too?

(Which, I think would be cool.)

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@silverpill @darius

This URL seems to be 404'ing.

https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-method-key/

(Linked to from here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md )

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