fedbox VS lemmyBB

If you're interested in an ActivityPub that works like that, I work on one called FedBOX[1]. It doesn't have clients at the moment, but that's how I planned to have it used.

https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox

Well, there is one already as the reference implementation for a suite of libraries I wrote. You can find it at https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox. (Contributions welcome)

Also my project, mentioned elsewhere in the thread: https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox, supports filesystem storage directly.

Hi, I'm the developer of go-ap. Which parts of it are giving you trouble? I'm always open to answer questions to the project's mailing list: https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go

There is a rather hidden wiki that has some more information than strictly the comments in the code: https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/

If you are looking for examples, there is a reference server at https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox

There is a Go implementation of a generic ActivityPub service. I am actively working on it as we speak: https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox. (You can see a demo instance of it at https://federated.id)

That's pretty cool actually. I've been tossing around the idea of a federating forum style UX that uses ActivityPub, and I figured it would be easy using something like this https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox

I don't know how many generic AP backend servers are out there, but it looks like Lemmy is becoming one. I hope they keep with the AP spec and allow any functionality in addition to it to be modular.

> What we really need in this landscape is dead simple services.

I'm working on exactly that: a service that acts as an ActivityPub server (code[1], example[2], example application running on top of it[3]) for users in the form of a static binary. It supports multiple storage backends that can be selected individually or all together at build time and it can be extended to many more.

[1] https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox

[2] https://federated.id

[3] https://littr.me

You might find this web UI for Lemmy interesting.

Im surprised they didnt move to a lemmy instance especially considering you can use lemmy with a mybb ui https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

It is actually possible to use Lemmy to build a modern forum. One of the official web frontends is lemmyBB.

For those craving the old PhpBB forum theme, but it's Lemmy under the hood:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

It's a viable approach. There's even a proof-of-concept UX for Lemmy/Fediverse that's indistinguishable from an old-school forum/bulletin board: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

Of course unlike an old-school fprum, on Lemmy you can choose to federate with other instances that pick up your niche interest. But it need not be the default.

It looks like they're working on it.

Then you may like it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB