with all these new federation compatible apps coming up im ever curious to see how people adopt accounts and UIs. will you be mixing content from all the different platforms together? will you create different accounts based on platform/topic? perhaps create some kind of meta ui that allows you to filter content in different ways for different purposes?
very interesting times for the fediverse.
@0x3F I hope to see all the existing apps properly implement the server>client part of the #ActivityPub spec. That way, instances can choose the back-end they prefer, and offer their users a choice of clients, so they can have the UI they prefer (and try new ones out) without having to constantly set up and keep track on new accounts.
@strypey but what about nextcloud instances that implement activity pub? should they also implement full servers?
this does seem like part of a good solution though. how would you allow users to switch? set up Pinafore/brutaldon style frontend-only pages for clients? how would you tell people about them? what about mobile clients?
just throwing out ideas.
@0x3F when I say "existing apps" I'm talking about the micro-blogging apps that were already part of the #fediverse before AP was formally released, but the argument would apply to all the new (micro-)blog servers/ clients as well. There really only needs to be one AP server in each language/ framework combo. No point reinventing the wheel badly (at least at first), and pulling time and effort away from developing new UI options and improve existing ones.
@0x3F @0x3F #RiseUp.net used to offer multiple web clients for their mail server (#SquirrelMail and #Imp). Their #webmail login page had a set of login/ password fields for each client they offered, but that was years ago, and it could be done now with a drop-down that allows users to choose the web UI for that session, defaulting to the one they used on last login. There are many pros to an instance landing page being separate from the #ActivityPub app.
@0x3F one advantage to this is that hosts could offer their users the ability to login to a #microblog UI, OR a #PeerTube uploader UI, OR a #PixelFed uploader, using the same #fediverse account. A potential solution to this:
https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/federation-of-user-accounts-and-follows-followers-across-activitypub-services/996/3