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Honk - https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk

Minimalist and opinionated but is a single binary with an SQLite db. Source is, uh, esoteric but is definitely hackable (there's a whole bunch of forks.) Seems to work ok with a few minor weirdnesses[1].

Should clarify that it doesn't have an API - you can't use Mastodon clients against it (until/unless someone writes on) - it's basically web only.

[1] I can't follow someone on my GotoSocial instance from honk but I'm pretty sure I've debugged that as being GTS's fault[2] rather than honk.

[2] They made many odd design decisions which cause(d) issues with federating to other systems.

[edit: clarify that honk as no API]

> [1] and [2]

Ugh!

Is there a fork that just uses whatever stupid key/keysigning choices are needed to play well with the maximal number of other federated thingies?

I'm just going to be sending out a single post per day, tops. And perhaps reading whatever single digit number of people I decide to follow (maybe double if I'm really bored).

If I have to generate and send private keys in the clear to get this done I honestly couldn't care less.

Edit: clarification

To clarify, it's GotoSocial that's the weird one - Honk seems to do the Right Thing.

Does GotoSocial communicate successfully with Mastodon?

Seems to be ok with Mastodon, Pleroma, and Akkoma from my experiences - although only with recent *omas.

The source is indeed esoteric, and sometimes hilarious. I have been using it to learn how the auth works against mastodon and some other parts of Activitypub. I do recommend it as a decent starting point to learn from.

Can you elaborate on some of gotosocial odd choices?

The main one is how they handle keys[1] which broke federation with Pleroma for a while. There's also some weirdness with their HTTP signing which breaks Honk follow requests but I'm still tracking that down.

[1] https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/11...

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