If you are familiar with Azure there is the project PandaCap by @lizard_socks@lemmy.world which is a self-hosted reader for activity-pub, ATProtocol, RSS/Atom and integrated with DeviantArt and other art sites.

https://lakora.us/pandacap/

I actually like the single-user Delft hosted aspect.

As far as the Microsoft stack goes, could it be hosted on a home server running Windows or does it have to be in the cloud on Azure?

One other question, how does PandaCap handle PeerTube posts? Same as image posts?

PandaCap is freaking awesome! Pretty much just what I had in mind when I posted previously about a single client to act as inbox for all ActivityPub and RSS/Atom content, only I had imagined it as a browser plugin or full on custom browser so that the content from the inbox would be opened in a client of the user’s preference based on post type.

Really awesome project! including DeviantArt etc is really great for the art angle.

The only feature I would miss here vs. other clients is the search function as you mention. I assume that is omitted because it is a lot of work to implement. Have you looked at extending your project with someone else’s code for that function? I know sometimes that is more trouble than help, but it would really take the project to that next level of “completely full featured client”.

I have looked at wafrn, definitely a cool project and I like that it handles both protocols, but it has some limitations that hold me back from switching to it as my main client. I didn’t know it was using a PDS in that way, do you mean it uses a server side PDS to mirror ATProto content or is it PDS per user?

Why do ATProtocol projects tend to look so much more polished even in their infancy? Is that where the front-end people dwell?

No community modded groups, not a Reddit-Like, FrontPage is more of a Digg-like I guess? Anyway nookie looks way more useable.

I realize my title has little to do with the post, lol, tired ADHD brain. I did have the thought that if someone were to be ambitious and motivated enough, the Red Dwarf code could be used to build direct access to BlueSky content into a Fediverse client.

But then, I’m always the guy in the corner pining for the good ole’ days of Trillian for IM, the one client to reach them all ^_

thanks for reminding meto water my plant!

huh, interesting, a private text based internet protocol where everything runs server side and all sends are encrypted by default. I see the appeal.

When OpenWrite says “publish to the open web, Gemini, or Mastodon” what does it mean by Gemini?

Indieweb is for you! Give Micro.Blog a try, it has native ActivityPub integration. https://indieweb.org/Micro.blog https://micro.blog/

Ruby Gems in that paragraph refers to the codebase which runs the shared repository on RubyGems.org not the Gems that are hosted there.

Windat

If only I were the king of the world!

I think what you are arguing for is hardcoding requitement for signatures with an “age appropriateness” ranking into the OS. How does this change the current situation where adult sites and apps are legally required to have an age verification popup/warning? Whether signature based or graphically based, what is at issue here is age verification which means referring to some “repository of truth” outside the will of the user. The problem is that the effect of this is to link government ID directly to web traffick, as to truly verify age requires verifying identity meaning abolishing anonymity on the web and enabling complete tracking of dissent.

I could see a version of what you are describing akin to the way physical cryptographic keys are used to manage DRM on high end enterprise software, where identity/age verification would need to be done by the hardware vendor and not the software/site, the problem with that however is the aftermarket and multiple-user devices. You could say that the “age key” would be a hardware device sold to adults using physical ID akin to spirits or tobacco, something like a SIM Card but preferably with NFC rather than having to be installed in the device. “Adult Access” would then be enabled on sign-in by scanning the “age key”, enabling onboard software to serve software and sites that don’t have an “all ages signature”.

Honestly as I write this, it isn’t the worst solution, the main thing would be keeping the Age Key as an interchangeable, replaceable device that only interacts with the OS and isn’t referenced by other software, so it doesnt just become another Digital ID proxie.

Nice, shame the assistant isn’t on Windows.

Don’t go giving them ideas. That way leads to Digital ID at birth, which should be avoided at all costs.

Thanks for clarifying, I figured fashion had at least something to do with it given the number of actively used protocols and services that still use it, XMPP being the one I use the most myself.

Even on XMPP I have seen several projects to “translate” the protocol into other languages (specifically Rust in one).

Efficiency makes sense, but then also the number of devs proficient in a language due to shifts in the emphasis of training and education is just as strong a force.

Lol, bro, my incapability or your lack of clear communcation? Modifying a quote of my comment is about as obtuse as you can get.

GNUSocial had an XMPP plugin, it was not built on Jabber. Yes XMPP clients have microblogging built out, but still lack some competitive features to the Fediverse, and fundamentally are still a server-based ecosystem rather than a self-hosted p2p ecosystem for persistent content which is what my post was discussing.

Interesting, I have actually used Movim for xmpp chat before but not fully explored its publishing features. This is a good nudge to do so. I wonder how it handles “communities”. I have been tracking XMPP recent development and threads are just now getting support, though they function more like tags in chat streams than like threads in a Lemmy sense in current implementations. It seems like the “Spaces” concept proposed in XEP-0503 would round this out, and I have discussed how Nicolo of Slidge plans to work on this woth the Movim dev team, it would make sense Spaces would much improve the blogging/forum functionality of Movim. I was asking about it for the potential of replacing Matrix/Discord with XMPP.

That’s my impression. I haven’t seen an argument yet as to what I’m describing not being fundamentally feasible.

It seems like most people here’s opinion is essentially that ActivityPub is a better option mostly because it is one unified protocol vs having to develop around multiple protocols adding complexity. This seems to be why ActivityPub emerged out of OStatus, which was more similar to what I was describing.