+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

activity pub is not only what happens when you let OOP people design a protocol. no the OOP try as hard as possible to make things as complicated as possible. kinda like the ITU standards, X.500 n stuff. utterly deranged.

i did ldap related things for a while which is a reduced version of X.500 and that gave me the same vibes as AP. everything reinvented from basic principles. beautiful contraptions with their own lingo and everything.

it's like if you have a box full of ultra special lego parts. they are beautiful in their right place, but without their set and the manual they are absolutely shit.

everyone does things a tad different though - the protocol is so complicated, it can't really be implemented.

to add insult to injury, the "normative" thing isn't a machine readable version, but a fucking giant free form web page. it honestly is a wonder that there is more than one implementation, and that those can speak to each other.

my favorite feature of the modern web: people hated xml, used json and then reinvented xml tooling, bad.

both aren't great but well done xml is really nice to use. json not so much.

not sure about their quality though. it uses codegen which is nice, but the generate code is total madness consisting of many many interfaces it seems. i can understand why, but it's totally ugly.

maybe i could wrap the libraries gotosocial uses into a small server and just add the "mastoapi" - this name - part so that i can use bloatfe.

have a very good night! 🤙

activitypub is what happens if you let people who have been trained in nothing but OOP write a protocol :)

the only one which seems half sane is honk.

correction, write an AP server myself because all of the existing ones seem to be a deployment nightmare.

docker isn't a solution but a problem. you know that things are dire if php seems reasonable.

ffs. i'm really close to self hosting just to avoid all the fucking instance drama -.-