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.)
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.
Organizers Log:
An update about the Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon) on August 1st & Saturday August 2nd I have been organizing.
I have paid the deposit to reserve the room chosen for the conference.
I also signed the contract for it.
The next thing I need to deal with is — catering, audio & visual requirements, room set up.
These will be additional costs.
(There are more things to do after those. But, that is what is next.)
A reasonable ActivityPub / ActivityStreams API to schedule something to be posted in the future might be — to HTTP POST something to an account's outbox with the `published` field set to a date-time in the future.
Currently, the way I am determining if content is valid ActivityPub / ActivityStreams content is —
№1:
Determining if it is valid JSON.
№2:
Checking if it has a "type" field.
And that is it.
Dealing with JSON-LD would be easier in many ways if everything was defined inline.
Rather than having to get the content from a URL in the context, parse it, etc.
The ActivityPub specification does not have an example of the "sharedInbox" field in use.
Although it does say "An optional endpoint..." — I suspect a lot of people won't know (with confidence) that it can go under the "endpoints" field. For example:
"endpoints": {
"sharedInbox": "https://social.example/inbox"
},
Especially if the person is still trying to understand ActivityPub, and isn't aware of the "endpoints" field yet.
What features people would like to see in the Misskey client?
Let @syuilo know.
"Activities addressed to this special [public address] URI shall be accessible to all users, without authentication."
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#public-addressing
The "public address" is:
https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public
(Yes, I am posting this for a reason.)
Organizers Log:
An update about the Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon) that I have been working on organizing.
As I mentioned before, we have a room chosen, and asked to use it on Friday August 1st & Saturday August 2nd.
I am waiting for them to send me the contract.
After I receive the contract, I will pay them a deposit to reserve the room.
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I think there is a need for a "dumb" document format.
HTML is no longer that.
Markdown probably isn't it.
No one really uses enriched-text (IETF RFC 1896).
(I prefer wiki like formats, for various reasons, but —)
I don't think there is an obvious choice for a "dumb" document format, right now.
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I think HTML being the default content type for ActivityPub / ActivityStreams is unfortunate in some ways.
HTML was originally a "dumb" document format. But, it is now a "smart" application format — with privacy & security concerns.
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/108237663610634862
You should NOT just take whatever HTML is in the 'content', and put it in the web-browser to view it.
You have to sanitize it. Or, render (unsafe) HTML to (safe) HTML.
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.
The mass culture on Mastodon is not the same as the mass culture on Lemmy.
The mass culture on Mastodon is not the same as the mass culture on Pixelfed.
The mass culture on Mastodon is not the same as the mass culture on Misskey.
The mass culture on Mastodon is not the same as the mass culture on Friendica.
If you have only been on Mastodon, then you may be unaware of these other cultures.
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This (in the screenshot) is an example of @atomicpoet and I ( @reiver ) using an earlier version of GreatApe back in October 2023.
You don't see it in this screenshot, but —we can also invite people watching in the audience to join the (video) conversation.
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GreatApe would also post again to your Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, PeerTube, or whatever account, maybe 10 minutes before your scheduled GreatApe conversation starts.
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Then you would schedule your GreatApe conversation.
Which could be "now", or some time in the future.
GreatApe would then post to your Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, PeerTube, or whatever account — telling your followers about the upcoming GreatApe conversation.
This post would include the URL to watch, listen to, and join the upcoming GreatApe conversation.
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You would first sign into GreatApe using your Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, PeerTube, etc account.
(I.e., no need to create a separate GreatApe account.)
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GreatApe update:
I am working on pushing out an MVP for GreatApe.
The GreatApe MVP will act as an add-on to other Fediverse (and DeSo other) software.
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