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I maintain some lists too, PR’s welcome:

• Server Apps
• Clients
• Developer Resources

That second comment by goplayoutside says it well: “Maybe the modest technical hurdles are a feature, not a bug.”

I think it is a feature, and the same is true for Mastodon and the Fediverse as a whole, imho.

Indeed. “Sense of community” is an aspect where additional socio-technical support native to the Fediverse can be quite helpful. We have the basics now. There’s work to add Groups support, but community is more than just groups. It has intricate and meaningful relationships between many other groups and people. Just like in real life.

Much appreciated, thank you very much. Esp. the attention to having good docs is a delight in the otherwise under-documented maze of fedi development.

Thank you for your participation in the FEP process. I am really happy to see this finalized, and also that Fediverse Enhancement Proposals is picking up steam to bring more standardization to the Fediverse.

I have happy news in that regard. We have migrated the watchlists to the Delightful Project on Codeberg. And they are rendered on the Delightful Club website.

Bit weird. An anonymous Google Doc, a screenshot of a toot saying “this is legit” and no other references. Could at least provide the URL to that toot.

SSPL is source-available, and not open source. There was lotsa discussion about the SSPL license, which was created by MongoDB, and it is a complex matter with all kinds of judicial angles. In summary it mainly benefits Mongo most of all, whose ‘open source passion’ is marketing-speak mostly. I forgot a lot of ins and outs, but just dug up a random find about downsides (2 parts) and impact.

A pity (for me) is the SSPL licensing, probably chosen because of the use of MongoDB. When using an alternative (maybe FerretDB) it could be Apache 2.0, which was the originally intented I heard (and still mentioned on the website).

I don’t know if AndStatus fully supports C2S as the issue about it is still open. This issue is likely also the most detailed info you’ll find on implementing C2S: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/499

I agree. And the hegemony is getting stronger by the day. The announcement in The Guardian about Mozilla for instance has this headline: “Firefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network”. Not Fediverse, but “The Mastodon Social Network”. And I continue to see new fedizens tooting elightened thoughs that there’s more than Mastodon, yet still getting it wrong (e.g. “There are more social networks than Mastodon on the Fediverse, like Pleroma”).

Potential of Fediverse is for the creation of a single interoperable “social fabric”. I wrote about this in Let’s Reimagine Social. How the Fediverse can enable a Peopleverse, which also entails de-emphasizing the role of individual apps, which are like siloes. App-free Computing is possible.

I have been moderator of SocialHub for a couple of years. Mastodon contributors only sporadically interact in that dev community. I cannot blame them for that. They naturally care most about their own FOSS project, and furthermore that is a Microblogging app, so why care about different app types? The major challenges of maintaining open standards in a grassroots movement are all social in nature (though they may have partially social-technical solutions) and tackling how FOSS projects can be incentivized to collaborate beyond their own direct project boundary.

Btw, for anyone interested in a good overview of fedi projects, I co-maintain the 3 fedi-related delightful lists.

There are a couple share project listed on https://delightful.club/delightful-activitypub-development/

Collaborative Writing on the Fediverse, with an app that has Manuskript-like plot authoring features.

You can react or like on the open issue for fedi support… https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa/issues/13

https://fediverse.space/ shows graphs, I think, though currently the page blanks out on me in Firefox. So dunno if they offer the functionality you referred to.

There’s a very active Matrix channel too, talking about all the things. Both technical and otherwise… https://matrix.to/#/#general-forgefed:matrix.batsense.net

People at Tumblr are musing about adding ActivityPub support to federate. See this thread (which starts about adding IndieWeb support). @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt works at Tumblr and is calling out in this toot for people to work on IndieWeb and maybe Fediverse support (that was May 2022).

I have a bunch of issues with federation to mastodon.social. Things that used to work well. See: https://lemmy.ml/post/351500

Nice find! Someone interested to PR to https://delightful.club/delightful-activitypub-development/ ?