Federate with GNU social

[pizzamaker]

I'm not sure this is feasible, but it would be wonderful if it federated with GNU social's protocol.

[nitmir]

What do you have in mind ? Something like Cross-posting ? Maybe this should be requested in client implementation and not in the server part.

[pizzamaker]

There's an upcoming federation standard called ActivityPub: https://w3c-social.github.io/activitypub/

It's expected that services such as pump.io and MediaGoblin will use it. Hopefully GNU social and Diaspora too.

The ideal scenario would be to use any social network with one account and be able to interact with users on other networks. For instance, it would be cool if I could follow Twister users from my GNU social account, or follow a MediaGoblin user from Twister, or befriend someone on identi.ca from Diaspora. That would be the end-goal.

[Serkan-devel]

Many more services, like Mastadon have already implemented it. Maybe those nodes who do the account managemant could handle it like pubs on ssb ssbc/ssb-db#202

[strypey]

As @Serkan-devel says, there has been a bit of discussion about the work required to bridge between SSB and ActivityPub apps. I'll post a few bits of news and ... well ... scuttlebutt from the world of the fediverse at the issue linked in their comment. The only bit relevant to the title of this issue is that a lot of work on an AP plug-in for GNU social was done as part of a GSoC project. It's not production-ready yet, but it's definitely on the way.