Fediverse Explorer: Browse most recent public posts across the fediverse*.

fediverse-explorer.stefanbohac

This is a very early prototype, but I'd love to start getting feedback early. Are there any similar tools out there? A better way to approach this?

*Only Mastodon instances are supported at this time.

#mastodon #fediverse #openweb #indieweb

@stefan

Why only Mastodon at this time?

Which is to say, I would have thought that the program would just listen to ActivityPub and therefore might not even know whether it was listening to a post from Mastodon or anything else.

Does it use some Mastodon API on an instance by instance basis instead of listening to ActivityPub?

@volkris I'm actually only using the RSS feed, see a bit more info here: github.com/stefanbohacek/fediv

I just wanted a quick and easy way to search across various Mastodon instances, but I do want to do more research on how to best extend this into the wider fediverse.

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@stefan

Ah! Makes perfect sense to use RSS.

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