[Testers Needed] Nextcloud Social - Federating with ActivityPub and Diaspora* social networks!

#1

Nextcloud Social is a new app in alpha testing! It is currently developing deeper ActivityPub inegration so you can connect with other federated social networks: Hubzilla, Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, PixelFed. Diaspora* protocol will add support for SocialHome and others! This kind of integration has been discussed many times!






#2

What is “must run on the default port”?

#3

@ucarkamon port 443, https.

#4

It means you’ll need to be running Nextcloud 15 and make your Nextcloud instance accessible to the world wide web over https on port 443 as @Cult mentioned. This will allow other federated services (Mastodon, Pleroma, Hubzilla, etc.) to be able to find and federate with your Nextcloud instance.

#5

This is awesome! Will try it as soon as I can.

#6

just installed, it works so far but as I try to follow somebody else on another server (mastodon instance) nothing happens, same when I try to find someone else… what I am missing?

#7

This is still alpha quality software, so be sure to check and report issues to the project Github.

https://github.com/nextcloud/social/issues

Is this the issue you are encountering?

https://github.com/nextcloud/social/issues/161

#8


solved my problem…

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#10

Hopefully soon I can update my installation. Currently only 14 is offered as the latest version in the admin interface. After this had been done, I can do intense testing with Friendica, which offers ActivityPub in the upcoming version as well.

In preparation to this tests, possibly a developer of this app can answer some question?

  • which activities (“Create”, “Announce”, “Like”, “Dislike”, “Update”, “Delete”, “Accept”, …) are supported?
  • which content types (“Note”, “Article”, “Video”, “Image”, “Event”, …) are supported?
  • which account types (“Person”, “Organization”, “Service”, …) are supported?
  • Are linked signatures used? If yes: Which library is used for this?
  • How is the receiving comment distribution done? Does the receiver relay the received comments if it was the receiver’s post that started the thread?
  • Does the app accept posts that are relayed (means: the http signature is not done by the actor)?
  • Does the app fetches missing posts, when a comment arrives to a post that isn’t currently available at the system?

If the answer to some of the questions is “no”, I would like to offer my support. I had implemented AP for Friendica: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/tree/2018.12-rc/src/Protocol/ActivityPub

If someone from the developer team of this app is at the C3 in Leipzig, I really would like to get in contact there.

P.S.: I hope that some more developers of AP implementations will be at the C3, I really would like to get in contact with them, so that we could better work at improving federation issues.

#11

You are everywhere, aren’t you @heluecht ? :slight_smile:
If you need me to do some tests just tell me. I’m on NC 15 with social app enabled. And I can tell you at the moment it doesn’t work with Friendica.

#12

Meh …

Could you please try to follow my account and tell me yours? Then we could exchange some test data.

#13

Did you get my post? I followed you.

#14

Pull request is done: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/6277

#15

Nice and quick. :grinning:

#16

PR is merged, please update your system and try again.

#17

this limitation to port 443 means that my installation running on docker on a NAS will not be able to use Social app.

#18

Tested the latest version with Hubzilla… post show up on Hubzilla but not vice versa. Any idea what might be causing this?

#19

Could you slap a reverse proxy like nginx or traefik in front of it? That’s what most people do, I’d reckon, at least that’s what I do.

#20

Its Port 8443