Beta test update
The last 5 days have been very busy, as expected. Things always get intense for a while when other people start using new software out there in the real world. The main purpose of this phase is to fix problems…
PieFed
Open Source Federated Forum
PieFed
Open Source Federated Forum
PieFed begins beta test
is running, please make an account and give it a try! There will be bugs, probably many bugs. When you see one, please reply to the welcome email you received, with info about it, or report it in the…
Video update: federation progress
Federation is coming along nicely, posts and replies are being sent both ways. Check out the video for technical details:
Video update: PieFed demo
Piefed is a federated forum/link aggregator, compatible with Lemmy It’s still unfinished but making good progress:
When a remote Lemmy instance follows a community on your instance…
I’ve previously written about the ActivityPub communication that happens when someone wants to follow a community on a remote instance, because that’s what I was coding at the time. A week later, things have moved on a lot and one…
Anti-forgery measures in ActivityPub (Signatures)
ActivityPub involves servers doing a lot of HTTP POST-ing of JSON at each other and there’s always a claim in the JSON about who did the Activity being described. However AP does not include a mechanism for ensuring that the…
Discoverability (WebFinger)
One of the gaps in ActivityPub is that even though there is a specified way to provide all the information about a user (an “Actor”, in AP), there is no way to know what URL to query to get that…
You can ignore JSON-LD
One of the special design decisions made during the development of the ActivityPub protocol was that the format of the data being sent between servers would not just be JSON, but something a bit different called JSON-LD. From what I…
Subscribe and unsubscribe to a community (Follow)
Welcome to the inaugural post in a series about things I’ve discovered about how ActivityPub works in the real world, beyond what the spec says. While the spec is pretty good and easy enough to understand there is a lot…