My hot take is that the and specs are fine. Having some more standards for working with groups might be nice but honestly I'm happy with how much folks are able to do already and how many implementations are out there that can work together. This is from a few months of working on a new implementation. Honestly there's been a decent amount of docs spread around the place to go off of.

That's really not a hot take. It's a pretty chill take.

For me the question is: Can you do something to make the entry of new developers to ActivityPub easier?

I wrote this tutorial and it seems to have helped some people. Creating a better developer experience will hopefully attract new people and thus great ideas.

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Sometimes I wonder, man. I've been working on building a library with a decent API for ActivityPub in Go for about 4 years and there's barely any developer interest. Sometimes I feel like I'm just pouring all that work into /dev/null. :(

You should do a (video) tutorial on how to start developing with go-ap for the Fediverse. Taking the first steps is currently hard.

I really want someone to do a video tutorial on developing for the Fediverse. But that might be personal bias. A text how to set up and interact with Mastodon would be fine too.

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@helge @mariusor Interesting, are folks relying on videos ti use libraries instead of docs these days? For some reason I thought folks only needed videos for "learn to code" type scenarios. I typically read example code and unit tests to get a feel for how stuff works.

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