What are some of the more novel forms of fediverse software? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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By novel I mean not emulating an existing popular platform, e.g. Lemmy-Reddit, Mastodon-Twitter, etc.

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[-] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Basically, it's the second half of ActivityPub that's for mapping an instance to clients. Most platforms on Fedi use bespoke APIs or copy Mastodon, but C2S is kind of more fluid and lets you build custom experiences and logic that hooks into it?

What's cool about Vocata is that you can kind of just make up the vocab and activity you send out the Outbox. Vocata just shrugs and says "whatever, that's valid."

It could be brilliant for prototyping.