curious if there are any #ActivityPub things that achieve more than having a timeline and small profile.
Like, what about photo galleries with albums? Pixelfed has that I suppose. Thinking back on old social profiles, you could join groups or communities so you could be more guaranteed to have a posting space away from the broader aspect of the site (no specific subject in the main part, with the groups being where you could get into specific spaces centered around a subject). Some of these sites offered galleries for just within the groups you joined.
Is Friendi.ca the closest Actuvity Pub thing that can do a social site with some of the aforementioned functions/mechanics?
https://friendi.ca/about/screenshots/
Like, what about photo galleries with albums? Pixelfed has that I suppose. Thinking back on old social profiles, you could join groups or communities so you could be more guaranteed to have a posting space away from the broader aspect of the site (no specific subject in the main part, with the groups being where you could get into specific spaces centered around a subject). Some of these sites offered galleries for just within the groups you joined.
Is Friendi.ca the closest Actuvity Pub thing that can do a social site with some of the aforementioned functions/mechanics?
https://friendi.ca/about/screenshots/
Mike Macgirvin
•I then created "Red" to do all of those things - nomadic identity, single sign-on, cloud storage, content management, shopping, etc. This later became Hubzilla. So it does nearly all the Friendica things plus more and better. Then about 2018, when ActivityPub and Mastodon first burst onto the scene, a lot of folks said Hubzilla was doing way too much - and it was. But it does all those things. So I cleaned it up and trimmed it down, keeping the best and jettisoning anything that didn't really belong in a social networking app. I also made ActivityPub do a lot of things whi... show more
I then created "Red" to do all of those things - nomadic identity, single sign-on, cloud storage, content management, shopping, etc. This later became Hubzilla. So it does nearly all the Friendica things plus more and better. Then about 2018, when ActivityPub and Mastodon first burst onto the scene, a lot of folks said Hubzilla was doing way too much - and it was. But it does all those things. So I cleaned it up and trimmed it down, keeping the best and jettisoning anything that didn't really belong in a social networking app. I also made ActivityPub do a lot of things which we once did in the Zot protocol. Not all of them, but enough to make a very straightforward and feature complete fediverse server. Like everything else, that started with a different name. Then I took the name away. This work resides in a repository called "streams". It's not a project or product or brand, but it's the best fediverse server you never heard of.
Why did I do these things? F*ck brand worship. That and this illusion that everything needs to grow exponentially forever are killing our planet. Anyway if you really want a full featured fediverse server, there are probably others but I've been in this game a very long time and it's pretty darn good and the best I've used. I've tried as many as will let me. Some people don't like the "look", but it's theme-able. You can make it look any way you want. Themes, addons, whatever. Integrated cloud storage and permissions, single sign-on, nomadic identity, groups, private groups, moderated groups, circles, events, location services, (checkin, checkout, distance search), channel search which you control, hash tag following, yadda yadda, Post in html, markdown,bbcode or mix them up a bit. Inline SVGs. I could go on for hours, but we've kept it pretty simple. The documentation is a bit lagging, but most people can figure it out. It's more DIY software because we want people to make it their own and polish it up in ways we simply don't have time to do. But it's pretty decent out of the box. You don't actually need to do anything. It represents a completely different way of working with the web. Your social network is a different web where instances can be hyper-connected and people don't see the boundaries between instances. You can click on my profile, visit my photo albums and see private photos/videos that are only available to you and not get asked for a password or a "home instance".
It uses the ActivityPub API. Not the Mastodon API. We also have the Twitter/Statusnet V1 API and our own API. For apps, it's a PWA. Just visit the site and install it as an app. No play store involved. No missing features between the app and the website.
Our vision isn't large sites supporting thousands or millions or billions of people in their little separate worlds.
It's turning a "million points of light" into a single space with no borders and which is bigger than all of them. And where each individual can exercise their own control over how and with whom they wish to interact and share.
I've rambled way too much. Cheers.