cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53839835

I recommended the Fediverse to Brennan Kenneth Brown (the creator and developer of fanfiction.lol: https://fanfiction.lol/, which is an alternative to Ao3, but that uses the same OTW software: https://github.com/otwcode/otwarchive/).

And he told me to go ahead and implement, as well as create a pull request.

The issue is: I know almost NOTHING about the technical side of The Fediverse (lol).

fanfiction.lol Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/brennanbrown/fanfiction.lol

  • grandel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    hace 10 días

    I may be misjudging what’s going on here but to me it seems like he’s saying that he has other priorities and this is likely a non trivial issue to solve.

    Unless you are willing to hire a skilled developer who is familiar with the codebase I doubt somebody will implement this just out of sheer kindness

    • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      hace 10 días

      It might be a bit much for a beginner but for someone with some programming basics it could be a decent way to learn more. It’s all back end stuff, so not much browser madness. Rails has its learning curve but has tons of convenience features. The part I have trouble understanding is why anyone would want this. Say federation appears. Then what? Anyway, OP, if you take this on, I can probably give a bit of technical advice if you want it.

      • jonathan@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        hace 10 días

        Someone who only has programming basics is a beginner. ActivityPub is not a simple spec to implement.

        • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          hace 10 días

          It would surprise me if there isn’t already an implementation that can be adapted. E.g. as someone said, Mastodon uses Rails .

          • jonathan@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            hace 10 días

            Adapt is the wrong word, you can’t just plug Mastodon into the side of this other app. At best someone could learn and borrow from the Mastodon implementation. And that’s still not a beginner level challenge.

            • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              hace 10 días

              I meant see what AP (Activitypub) aimplementation Mastodon is using, and adapt that implementation, not the entirety of Mastodon. In fact quick web search immediately finds there are multiple pre-packaged Ruby gems for Activitypub, so just use one.

              I looked at the Wikipedia article about AP and it’s kind of bureaucratic but I don’t see much difficult. Yeah it’s not suited to a raw beginning programmer but it shouldn’t take a big expert. OP, have you done much programming?

              I see on Wikipedia that there’s a new thing called “AT Protocol” that’s supposed to improve on AP. That might also be worth looking into.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    hace 10 días

    The only pointer I can give, is that you would probably want to use ActivityPub for the federation protocol, and you could potentially look at Mastodon’s implementation of that, since it’s also implemented in Ruby On Rails.

    Mind that there can be differences in how the federation should work, for example Mastodon doesn’t have post titles, which you would presumably want on a fan fiction site…

  • ErrorCode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    hace 10 días

    Are you trying to build a federated version of AO3? Most of the fanfic writers I know spend there time there, but it is currently down - maybe this is in response to the suspected hack and anticipated recovery time?

  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
    5·
    hace 10 días

    Federation uses the ActivityPub protocol, start with their documentation

    You know how to do web dev and send an http request, right?