Re: Any interest in creating an nnfediverse backend?

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>:

> But these all must have their own APIs and protocols, right? I doubt
> it will be possible to write one nnfediverse backend that could serve
> all these different services -- we'd need an nnmastodon,
> nndiaspora... etc.

Most probably, yes.

> Not to say it couldn't be done! I wonder about usability, though. The
> more a service moves away from "email-like" and towards the direction
> of "chat-like", the less appropriate Gnus will be, I think. Mastodon
> is probably fine, but I don't know how diaspora works.

Well It's similar in many ways, but postings can be longer (not limited
to the 500 characters of a "toot").

And replies are similar to comments on online newspaper articles.

They also have a concept named "aspects" that I find a little hard to
grasp.

I haven't found an equivalent to facebook groups.

(mind, my knowledge of facebook is entirely second hand. So I may not
have grasped what facebook groups are, either. I'm
#zuckervegan (ie. no facebook, instagram or snapchat))

> It would be nice to have Gnus handle pub/sub stuff, too.

Yes, it would.