ActivityPub Integration

Overview

Discussion and design of ActivityPub / Mastodon with ENiGMA½.

GitHub Issues

• ActivityPub / Mastodon #459

Desired Integrations

• Act as both a server and a client
  • On behalf of users
  • As the BBS itself (bot)
• Feed views
  • Local
  • Federated
  • Following
• Inbox
  • Direct replies also land in user's inbox
  • User can again reply, or directly post to ActivityPub addresses
  • Similar to EchoMail
• Message Areas
  • Ability to map a message area to a ActivityPub 'group'
  • Read and reply in message base
  • Similar to EchoMail
  • Bridged message areas, such as FTN (non-Mastodon node) <-> Local (Mastodon) <-> Fediverse

Questions

• Should we create a more generalized ActivityPub support/module/classes that Mastodon then extends?

References

• ActivityPub
• https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/

Implementations

• https://github.com/jakelazaroff/dumbo
• https://macwright.com/2022/12/09/activitypub.html
• https://github.com/jwilk/zygolophodon