Rust Reddit Fediverse (to be renamed later)

We have a twitter alternative (mastodon), a facebook alternative (friendica), so let's build a reddit alternative in the fediverse.

Matrix Chat: #rust-reddit-fediverse:matrix.org

ActivityPub API.md

Goals

• Come up with a name / codename.
• Must have communities.
• Must have threaded comments.
• Must be federated: liking and following communities across instances.
• Be live-updating: have a right pane for new comments, and a main pain for the full threaded view.
  • Use websockets for post / gets to your own instance.

Questions

• How does voting work? Should we go back to the old way of showing up and downvote counts? Or just a score?
• Decide on tech to be used
  • Backend: Actix, Diesel.
  • Frontend: inferno, typescript and bootstrap for now.
• Should it allow bots?
• Should the comments / votes be static, or feel like a chat, like flowchat?.
  • Two pane model - Right pane is live comments, left pane is live tree view.
  • On mobile, allow you to switch between them. Default?

Resources / Potential Libraries

• Use the activitypub crate.
• https://docs.rs/activitypub/0.1.4/activitypub/
• Activitypub vocab.
• Activitypub main
• Diesel to Postgres data types
• helpful diesel examples
• Mastodan public key server example
• Recursive query for adjacency list for nested comments
• https://github.com/sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor
• Sticky Sidebar
• RXJS websocket
• Rust JWT
• Hierarchical tree building javascript

TODOs

• Endpoints
• DB
• Followers / following