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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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It is regarding something I'm working on, but you may not find it interesting as it is not ActivityPub based (but a bridge will be implemented).
If it's open source, yes I am (very) interested.
It will be yes! Right now I only have it locally and its messy, but the idea is like this:
Your home feed allows customizing the sorting algorithm. There's a sensible chronological-based algorithm, but you can customize it more.
Content is organized into feeds.
By default, you have your own personal feed similar to a micro blogging platform.
but you have the ability to have multiple feeds. For example, maybe you're into both technology and wood working, but not all followers are interested in both. So you have separate feeds, and users can follow one or the other.
A feed isn't only for one person's posts. For example, I might maintain a woodworking feed, but I'd "share" posts from other wood workers. In essence, I am a sort of "content curator". I pick out the good woodworking content and put it in a single feed for you to follow!
A feed can be like a Lemmy community or a Facebook Group. So it can allow multiple posters, it can be open to anyone to post, or it can be approval-only (but submitted from anyone). It can also be private or public (though that's a low priority feature)
A feed can use another feed as a source / baseline. This might mean that you get all the other feed's posts, but maybe you as the maintainer filter it further, or add some of your own. Or you can use multiple feeds as the source, so maybe there are multiple good wood working feeds and I like them all, so I combine them
In my opinion, this replaces automated algorithms with manual curation. It also replaces moderation, as you might like a community but wish it was differently moderated, there might be another feed that sources the first feed but with extra moderation!
The project is still in its infancy and I don't get too much time to work on it. But since you're interested, I'll try to get it into an open source-able state (albeit far from workable) and let you know when I do!
I might have good news for you: you don't need to drop ActivityPub to do that. Maybe what you are looking for is very close to my idea of a social web browser, i.e, an ActivityPub-based application that is controlled by the client and not the server.
What programming language are you working on?
Are you aware of https://granary.io/? It may be helpful for implementing your ideas