Nov. 10th, 2024

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Pandacap: Part 5 - ActivityPub

A          screenshot of part of Pandacap's favorites page, showing          gallery-style thumbnails

If I'm thinking about how often I use it, the ActivityPub integration in Pandacap really isn't the most relevant part of the application to me on a regular basis (that would be the inbox, and its integration with DeviantArt and Bluesky). It was, however, my inspiration for building Pandacap in the first place. There were a few reasons I felt this was important:

  • I believe decentralized social media will continue to be useful, regardless of whether it achieves mainstream success - maybe not to replace big social media platforms, but for its own distinct merits. To hopefully facilitate the adoption of such platforms, I wanted to ensure that the ability to view and reply to my work would be available there, and I wanted to know I could follow and reply to their work as well.
  • The ActivityPub server-to-server protocol - though it may be somewhat broad and vague - was within my ability to implement (it only uses HTTP requests and is agnostic to the underlying data model), which gives me a feeling of control over my interaction with the fediverse.
  • Joining an existing server would make me nervous about conforming to unwritten community norms, while using my own Mastodon or Pixelfed instance would increase the cost and saddle me with a tech stack I'm not familiar with. (Pandacap can run on a free web app plan and a database billed only by usage.)
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