Not an issue - activity feeds + opensearch

[johndpope]

Hi @snarfed -

I'm playing around activity feeds - and go so to fire up opensearch on aws I'm tracking an issue here - I know you have the granary app -

https://github.com/qlands/elasticfeeds/issues/

it would seem to make sense if either of these could bubble up the sorts of data / content your capturing into an activity feed with python.

maybe not.... did you ever consider it?

more background

https://opensocial.github.io/spec/2.5.1/Social-Data.xml

[snarfed]

Hmm! I don't know this https://www.getopensocial.com/ startup, but I know the original OpenSocial standard itself well! Blast from the past, I knew some of the creators well during its development. And you're right to mention https://granary.io/ , its REST API implements OpenSocial's Activity Streams API.

Sadly the OpenSocial standard itself is dead. I do run a few services that convert social network timelines/feeds to Atom, eg https://bluesky-atom.appspot.com/ , and https://granary.io/ can convert more, eg Mastodon. I used to run similar services for Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, but they all either closed their APIs or otherwise became too developer hostile to keep those services working.

[johndpope]

I'm about to run off to the park with kids - but thanks coming back to me. Once upon a time - I used this - and it worked well. it was mysql backend. Some dude did their phd on it in spain. https://github.com/ging/social_stream

I was looking around for modern day alternatives - I did come across this - go-lang https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

I stumbed elasticfeeds as I'm using python these days. not sure you saw the above ticket - but I managed to upgrade elasticfeeds to use opensearch - is this the best direction for an opensource + activityfeeds???? it seems quite powerful. (sidenote - elasticsearch changed its licesne - but amazon took it over from fork )

I know there's this one aswell - stream_framework https://github.com/tschellenbach/Stream-Framework/blob/master/stream_framework/feeds/aggregated_feed/notification_feed.py

I asked chatgpt for help upgrading rails / social_stream project - was some what successful - but gave up after a bit. I do have this in a virtualbox container somewhere. hmmm... kids screaming....goto run.

[snarfed]

This all sounds great! And if you want data out of social networks and services, granary can definitely help. Let me know if I can answer any questions!

[johndpope]

no worries - I'll share updates if I make progress.