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> It's been decided that Standard ML is the language of this implementation. You can read why in the 100-years.txt file

Link? This site is already basically a txt file

http://len.falken.directory/p-lang/100-year-programs.txt

(Found it by looking through the site’s feed.)

This person takes minimalism to the next level. But interesting idea.

I love the long term approach, filesystem storage and ML choice. Aim for likewise in https://mro.name/o/2021-03-30-142424-prototypefund10-068.pdf (german) funding proposal.

Vaporvare currently.

There is already the activitypub client to server protocol but there is 0 interest in it.

There is some (renewed) interest but in various niches..

https://linkedopenactors.org/

https://codeberg.org/openEngiadina/cpub (though parent project switched to XMPP)

https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/499 (though stalled)

I suppose openengiadina backed down from the activitypub complexity and doc and namespace 404s in the standard.

Neither am I convinced whether activitypub takes itself seriously as they don't keep a validator up. Nor is there a reference implementation, is there?

The reference implementation is basically "Do Whatever Mastodon Does" unfortunately.

Am I being dumb? What's described here is basically EMAIL.

  1. fetch all personal inbox messages, 
  2. subscribed outbox messages, 
  3. and allow for sending messages to the fediverse.

Especially as it's all proxied through a local SMTP server.

So:

  1. Like an email inbox?
  2. Like mailing-lists ?
  3. Like... sending EMAIL to anybody or mailing-lists.

I must be missing something?

You missed that ActivitySub is meant to be a client designed to translate AP into emails!

""" ... agnostic ActivityPub client ...

Open your email client of choice to add the local mail server to your list of email accounts.

ActivitySub will translate SMTP messages into ActivityPub messages.

Incoming ActivityPub messages will be stored into a Maildir which is read by email clients like Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook. """

It's an adapter application for ActivityPub, the standard that backs the "fediverse" and apps like Mastodon, PeerTube, etc, to email. ActivityPub/the fediverse is already designed very similar to how email works so a lot of the terminology intentionally overlaps: ActivityPub at the raw level has a concept of an inbox and an outbox on the server.

Most clients to ActivityPub do a lot of stuff "in the middle", taking data from the Inbox and feeding it into complex (usually Postgres) databases and then present it all with mostly bespoke patterns: as Twitter-like feed (in Mastodon's case) or a YouTube-like site (in PeerTube's case).

This client intentionally sticks to the raw "email-like" flow and applies it directly to "ancient" email technologies: using SMTP to send outgoing messages to the ActityPub servers in the "fediverse" and dumping things from incoming messages into a classic style Maildir email directory rather than a database of any other sort (so you can read the "fediverse" in just about any traditional email client as if it was email).

https://github.com/buckket/twtxt

So where is the software?

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