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Using Claude Code to build an ActivityPub implementation for Indiekit, based on Fedify, was the easy part. (and it was a lot of fun 😊)
Building the UI to actually consume ActivityPub content, and layering a Mastodon-compatible API on top of it that works with existing apps and plays nicely with other AP implementations… that’s the real challenge.
Eating FEPs for dinner and reading how other implementations do things is how you realize just how much work is still ahead — and how many pain points are still unresolved.
Right now, my Indiekit blog has:
IndieWeb (Micropub, Microsub, Webmentions)
ActivityPub (server + reader)
If I wanted to self-host my own ATproto PDS, I’d also need to build an “AppView” to consume Bluesky content.
So I’d end up with:
one reader for RSS (my current Microsub)
one reader for ActivityPub (my native, still ugly AP reader)
one reader for ATproto
That’s a lot of readers for different data streams coming from different protocols.
At some point I thought: what if I just used my Microsub UI to consume everything — not just RSS/Atom/JSONFeed/h-feed?
Since Microsub already supports channels, I figured I could inject an AP timeline into a Microsub channel.
That idea fell apart pretty quickly.
RSS and h-feed from IndieWeb sites are straightforward. I know I can reply, like, repost, or bookmark because the other side supports the same interaction model.
But the moment I had to deal with ActivityPub — likes, boosts, replies — everything became different. The Microsub plugin would have needed so many protocol-specific features that my implementation would drift far from other Microsub implementations.
And I really didn’t like where that was heading.
Microsub turning into a universal ingestion layer for everything? That felt like a guaranteed mess.
So I drew a line: Microsub stays scoped to RSS/Atom/h-feed/JSONFeed. That’s it.
And yet… I’m still torn.
Because instead of one unified UI to consume RSS, ActivityPub, and ATproto, I’m now building three separate readers.
And that honestly feels like a huge waste.
So I’m dumping this conundrum here.
Maybe somewhere between the Fediverse and the Atmosphere, someone has already figured this out — or at least has a better idea.
Do you?
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@homlett@mamot.fr I think the short answer is: perhaps, Open Graph could be implemented differently, but probably not as only a CSS media type?
“@media opengraph” is an elegant idea because social previews really do feel like another presentation of the same document, much like “print”. But today Open Graph is not just a presentation layer, it is a crawler contract: platforms fetch a page, parse stable metadata, and usually fetch a separate image URL.
So the missing primitive may be less “a new CSS media type” and more “a standardized preview representation for a URL.” That could include layout rules, dimensions, caching, fallbacks, and safe rendering behavior. CSS could absolutely be part of that, but by itself it would not solve the whole problem.
Yes the current OG workflow feels un-webby for good reason, but the alternative probably needs to be a proper web standard for preview rendering, not only a CSS switch.
on my blog I use Eleventy post hook to generate OG images at post-build time, it uses a template to generate the card using the title or the text of the page content along with my blog avatar. so I never have to worry about it
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This is complete madness… these MEP’s are out of their depth, not even sure how they can represent 300M citizens on anything regarding digital when their own meeting process/governance is being done on …Whatsapp
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Très sympa l’idée Feedcast… le code est dispo quelque part ?
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@johnjohnston@social.ds106.us agile kanban for War crimes…
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Flamands de droite et Wallons de gauche, vraiment ? Cette étude déconstruit les clichés
https://daardaar.be/rubriques/societe/flamands-de-droite-et-wallons-de-gauche-vraiment-cette-etude-deconstruit-les-cliches/Permalinktellement évident… les problématiques de la Belgique sont des illusions créées par les systèmes médiatiques et politiques de chaque côté de la frontière linguistique, elle même une création politique qui ne sert que le dysfonctionnement de la chose Belgique.
on pourrait encore revenir en arrière mais pour cela faut une caste politique à même d’imaginer un futur par-delà sa propre incapacité chronique à incarner une démocratie représentative qui reflète véritablement les préoccupations des gens.
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Survivre un crash disk…✅ et sans perte de données…mais punaise j’ai eu peur…
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Why do I have the feeling this is already pre-cooked and Orban will secure this election for his personal survival.
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Yes… thinking about porting my Bluesky @skyfleet.blue fleet of bots to here thinking about using Botkit/Fedify
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PermalinkTesting media upload from Phanpy to Micropub with full flow syndication
This is supposed to upload this image to my Micropub media endpoint, Eleventy should detect the change, build the static post and syndicate to your timeline.
This post is the result.
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I have it implemented on my site, below each syndicated post you can find an AP “also on” if you click this, you’ll be asked to provide your mastodon instance before interacting with the post
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so painful to watch @evan@cosocial.ca patiently explain over and over tags.push and the way hashtags work on the Fediverse. I admire Evan patience and tone, but people should learn to read and inform themselves really because otherwise innovation on the Fediverse is a uphill battle even for the people that most contributed to it.
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En France, pour que Justice se fasse, il ne suffit pas de porter plainte, ni de se ruiner avec des coûts exorbitants pour simplement accéder à la justice ⚖️.
Non — en plus de tout cela, les victimes doivent jongler avec l’insuffisance chronique des moyens alloués. Elles doivent subir les changements de juges d’instruction tous les deux ans, favorisant ainsi le non-traitement de dossiers déjà systématiquement oubliés — trop complexes, trop exigeants pour que la justice daigne vraiment “faire justice”.
Et pendant ce temps, alors même que les systèmes de police belge et français sont au courant d’une probabilité effective de récidive — les faits, les crimes dont sont accusés les principaux responsables n’ont jamais cessé de se dérouler tout au long des procédures judiciaires, depuis 1997 —
Et tout le monde s’en fout.
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Anil’s Endgame for the Open Web is something everyone should read.
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Listening how Trump has lost the Iran war hawks
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Trumps Foreign Policy (if that can be called a policy) is all fury no strategy
thewalrus.ca https://thewalrus.ca/trumps-foreign-policy-is-all-fury-no-strategy/PermalinkA nation (🇺🇸) whose national security strategy recently warned Europe of “civilizational erasure” may actually fear its own.
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