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I maintain some lists too, PR’s welcome:

• Server Apps
• Clients
• Developer Resources

Have a look at #flohmarkt, federated decentral classified ad software using #activitypub: https://codeberg.org/grindhold/flohmarkt By @grindhold@chaos.social

Oh, that kind is good. Constructive feedback is very valuable. But the fediverse is full of people dropping derogatory sarcastic comments or even reacting in rage, that aren’t helpful in the slightest. I should’ve made that clearer in my first comment.

There’s no responsibility at all. There’s also full freedom to complain however you wish. If you do that on someone’s free work with which they try to help others, it just doesn’t look very good on you. That’s all.

One thing I don’t get. Among the gazilion “Oh, it is sooo easy to do this better” complainers are countless developers and designers. This whole Mastodon thing is Free Software, where countless people spent some of their free time and energy to give you what there is today. Complainer devs and UX folks, are your PR’s getting rejected?

Well, you are a Person too in this Peopleverse. If that’s your preference, that’s perfectly fine and a valid coice. Whatever enriches your life!

Fully agree. Those doing Groups need to be continuously reminded about this compatibility. Tendency to “wheel reinvention” is high and co-creation is also not front and center in thinking with implementers, unfortunately. There’s a Groups FEP created by Lemmy dev. I nudged Flarum, nodeBB and Discourse folks to come together. On SocialHub @trwnh gave some great insights. I hope more FEP’s will be proposed, so that interop guarantees can be higher.

Current functionality of the plugin is still rather limited. The following 2 categories federate:

• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/standards/fep/54
• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/fediversity/fediverse-futures/58

But right now that only creates a toot on a new topic creation, and replies from the fediverse aren’t becoming replies in the forum. Hellekin has experimented with it, and SocialHub is open to beta-test.

Oh for sure it would benefit a lot. A migration to Lemmy has come up in the past… though it would mean losing a ton of community/forum management features. But there’s movement towards federation of SocialHub, with The Pavilion who wrote an ActivityPub plugin. It is enabled on the SocialHub and 2 categories are currently federating. The plugin will be developed further, and feedback is being collected. See:

• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/adding-federation-support-to-discourse/2966
• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/welcome-discourse-to-the-fediverse/3275
• https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/106
• https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794

Two more forum softwares are adding federation support: Flarum and nodeBB

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.

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

Thank you. Well, not so much on this topic speciically. I would advise to create a bit more elaborate call-for-help with some more background info, cross-post it to other relevant Lemmy communities, boost it on the Fediverse. And likely good to create a separate fedi (pleroma/mastodon/ etc.) toot with a bunch of hashtags in it and a link to the Lemmy post. Hashtags like: #art #artwork #graphics #design #UX

The question is whether the project should be forked into multiple separate projects at all. An alternative would be to have a generic “Directory Platform” and have modules to make it a Book Review platform, a Movie Database, or whatever-you-wanna-collect platform with another module. The modules would mostly be templates and data structures + user interface widgets to present them nicely.