GitHub - MaddyUnderStars/shoot: ActivityPub federated instant messaging server

[cm0002@literature.cafe]

Apparently there is an attempt for a federated alternative to Discord.

(I am not affiliated with Shoot in any way)

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

Is there some documentation / specification for the ActivityPub part of it? I’d like to see how these messages, channels and groups get exchanged from a programmer’s / protocol perspective.

Edit: And please cm0002, stop creating new accounts on a daily basis, I can’t block you that fast and I’m not subscribed to a lot of lemmy.ml communities so I don’t see whether this is just a cross-post. Or credit your sources. This content is taken from here

[kyonshi@piefed.social]

The question is: what for? What benefit does having a chat with activitypub have over IRC/XMPP/Matrix, and if that’s so, why not extend those with that functionality?

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

I feel there’s never a good and satisfying answer to this very question… Why have 5 competing instant messengers, why not have one perfect one? Why should we retrofit threaded conversations onto Matrix and not retrofit chat onto a platform that already has threaded conversations? The real world is just messy. There’s a bazillion ways to arrive at a similar thing and there’s also quite some ideas out there and we constantly come up with yet more of them. And then projects grow, sometimes different ones into similar directions. We have different technological origins/roots, different ideologies and motivations that all get into the mix and have an influence on decisions. Things sometimes change during a long process. And then this is made by humans and they often don’t abide by logic. They’ll things just out of fun or because they don’t know any better. I think this is a very valid question, but the world just doesn’t work that way.