Comment on Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge?
Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 weeks agoPandaCap is freaking awesome! Pretty much just what I had in mind when I posted previously about a single client to act as inbox for all ActivityPub and RSS/Atom content, only I had imagined it as a browser plugin or full on custom browser so that the content from the inbox would be opened in a client of the user's preference based on post type.
Really awesome project! including DeviantArt etc is really great for the art angle.
The only feature I would miss here vs. other clients is the search function as you mention. I assume that is omitted because it is a lot of work to implement. Have you looked at extending your project with someone else's code for that function? I know sometimes that is more trouble than help, but it would really take the project to that next level of "completely full featured client".
I have looked at wafrn, definitely a cool project and I like that it handles both protocols, but it has some limitations that hold me back from switching to it as my main client. I didn't know it was using a PDS in that way, do you mean it uses a server side PDS to mirror ATProto content or is it PDS per user?
lizard_socks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not exactly sure how it works in wafrn - I haven’t looked into it myself - but last I heard, they were using blacksky’s PDS (lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51892713) which I’m guessing means all their users (at least the ones who’ve turned atproto on) get mirrored to that particular PDS.
The search functionality missing from Pandacap is in some ways intentional; I don’t personally like searching for anything in the fediverse or in Bluesky, because I run into a lot of text posts, photos, screenshots or whatever that I don’t have context for and that I haven’t mentally prepared myself to see. But there’s also the technical issue that right now, Pandacap doesn’t index incoming posts in one place; they either go to the inbox, go to notifications, or get ignored. If search were to be implemented, perhaps it could take the form of an external ActivityPub instance that indexes posts, and Pandacap would just hit its API or something.
The other issues with Pandacap are that it’s single-user, and that it’s on the Microsoft stack, so no one can really use it unless they’re willing to sign up for Azure and know their way around it enough to get it deployed. But that keeps overheads down for me compared to running a VPS.
I’ve never tried loading a PeerTube post in Pandacap but I wonder if it would try (and fail) to display the video in an image tag, or if it would just show up as a text post.
Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
I actually like the single-user Delft hosted aspect.
As far as the Microsoft stack goes, could it be hosted on a home server running Windows or does it have to be in the cloud on Azure?
lizard_socks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think it could be. Cosmos DB might have to be replaced with a different EF Core provider - not sure which would be most appropriate but I’m sure something would work. Key and image storage could just be done on disk.