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