Supporting AP Client>Server API

nolanlawson / pinafore

Alternative web client for Mastodon (UNMAINTAINED)

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Supporting AP Client>Server API #1874

Open strypey opened 4 years ago

strypey commented 4 years ago

I can't find a link now, but I remember reading that Pleroma is implementing the ActivityPub server>client API, as published in the AP spec? Would it take a huge overhaul of the Pinafore codebase to support that as well as the bespoke Mastodon API? I presume that would make it easier to make Pinafore compatible with a wider range of fediverse back-ends in the future. There was a bit of discussion about the C2S API on the SocialHub AP forum.

nolanlawson commented 4 years ago

I haven't looked into the API, but yeah, I assume it would require a big overhaul.

I'm a fan of using standards in general, but it seems like the Mastodon API is kind of the de-facto standard right now. If there were a client that used the standard API as its only API, then I think it would be more interesting to implement support for that in Pinafore.