#Smithereen 0.4.3 is out with grouped news feed entries...

#Smithereen 0.4.3 is out with grouped news feed entries ("John added 5 friends" instead of 5x "John added Jane as a friend") and some bug fixes.

#activitypub #mastodev

Like 1 25 Aug 2022 at 17:03 | Open on mastodon.social

11 comments

Kat M. Moss

@grishka that looks pretty cool... How does it differ technologically from friendica?

25 Aug 2022 at 17:23 | Open on indieweb.social

Gregory

@cambridgeport90 well, for one, it isn't written in PHP 🤣
Groups are real groups, not these "you post with mention and it boosts" workaround things.

25 Aug 2022 at 17:26 | Open on mastodon.social

Kat M. Moss

@grishka I see it's Java. Interesting Choice... so, if you can do AP correctly in Java... then ultimately you could do something similar in C#? Since C# is technically one of Java's relatives?

25 Aug 2022 at 17:27 | Open on indieweb.social

Gregory

@cambridgeport90 of course you can! You can technically do it in literally any language that is capable of using network sockets (making system calls directly from assembly also counts).

There are web frameworks for C# and one of my friends does backend development in C# as his job.

25 Aug 2022 at 17:30 | Open on mastodon.social

Kat M. Moss

@grishka Seriously? that's pretty cool. I have been looking for some Open source .NET devs to both bounce ideas off of and learn from via real-live examples.