THE FEDERATION SUPERNOVA

[barzamin]

Or, what do we need to do so that Rustodon isn't useless?

ie, docs/stories.md but more specific

Implementation goals

• publish users as ActivityStreams actors (cf this)
  • basic structure
  • publicKey for HTTP Signatures
• inbox (cf this)
  • validate signatures

Mechanics

• We might want to use @asonix's AS/AP crates instead of our current, extremely ad-hoc serde_json-ing
  • I don't know if those crates do anything actually JSON-LD-y or if they're fancy serde_json wrappers. Figure that out, decide if we actually want JSON-LD, and if so, maybe talk to @cwebber about that?

[elegaanz]

I don't know if those crates do anything actually JSON-LD-y or if they're fancy serde_json wrappers.

As far as I can tell it is only a wrapper around serde_json to allow us to use Rust type system with ActivityStreams objects, there is no JSON-LD resolution or anything (there is an issue for that tho: asonix/activitystreams#1).

[asonix]

Yeah, those don't do any JSON-LDing yet. I'm really not excited to implement that myself, and the other implementations don't look very complete.

[bqv]

Status?