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Only 10 #activityPub projects have more than 10k users.

Most new projects struggle with getting attention and visibility.

I think bigger projects should play a more pro-active role in acknowledging, and if possible, mentoring new/smaller projects.

in reply to dansup

Ever since I started Pixelfed, I've felt like this.

mastodon.social/@dansup/100286…

in reply to dansup

I am just starting the process of integrating UncenoredNews.US with activitypub.

I will take a closer look at pixelfeed for inspriation.

in reply to dansup

what big projects can do to foster smaller ones is sticking as close as possible to the ActivityPub spec. If not in the activities they produce, at least in the ones they receive.

The biggest problem I see at the moment is that every project is trying to implement the mistakes Mastodon made.

in reply to marius

is there a canonical list of Mastodon mistakes somewhere? Or could you give a TL;DR? I'm curious for my own project plucking. I haven't reached the AP side yet but this would be very useful info
in reply to secretspecter 🚲:racket:

sorry, maybe I was a bit harsh. What I meant by "mistakes" are just the idiosyncrasies of Mastodon. Some of the things that I know of and people usually try to emulate are: webfinger for actor discovery, treating all objects as being of type Note (as far as I know there's no graceful fallback for types Mastodon doesn't use natively), local caching of all objects and media, etc.
in reply to dansup

Well I don't need to be mentored by Gargron, but it would be nice to know why my avatar doesn't show up on his system, despite following the ActivityPub protocol. #Epicyon
in reply to dansup

linking is good, we should make it a strong tradition in #4opens #openweb projects :)
in reply to dansup

Great point. Any smaller / upcoming ones you can think of that could use more visibility?
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