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		jeroenhd on April 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Wrote an Activitypub Server in OCaml: Lessons Le... It depends on your goal. If your server is just a tool you use, you can ignore lot of concepts. There is no local timeline, there are no users, all follows belong to a single user, etc. I can't find the link but a while back there was a post on the front page about how to get a findable, read only ActivityPub profile by just uploading some static JSON files. Not exactly a Twitter competitor, but you don't need much to start exchanging messages.

mdasen on April 24, 2023 [–]

I believe you're looking for this: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-bas...

cratermoon on April 24, 2023 | [–]

I did that myself. It's quite a distance from passively accepting requests to interacting with the Fediverse.

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