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!
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.
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?
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 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.
You are everywhere, aren’t you @heluecht ?
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.