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# Rust Reddit Fediverse (to be renamed later)
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We have a twitter alternative (mastodon), a facebook alternative (friendica), so let's build a reddit alternative in the fediverse.
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[Matrix Chat: #rust-reddit-fediverse:matrix.org](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#rust-reddit-fediverse:matrix.org)
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[ActivityPub API.md](API.md)
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## Goals
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- Come up with a name / codename.
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- Must have communities.
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- Must have threaded comments.
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- Must be federated: liking and following communities across instances.
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- Be live-updating: have a right pane for new comments, and a main pain for the full threaded view.
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- Use websockets for post / gets to your own instance.
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## Questions
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- How does voting work? Should we go back to the old way of showing up and downvote counts? Or just a score?
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- Decide on tech to be used
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- Backend: Actix, Diesel.
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- Frontend: inferno, typescript and bootstrap for now.
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- Should it allow bots?
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- Should the comments / votes be static, or feel like a chat, like [flowchat?](https://flow-chat.com).
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- Two pane model - Right pane is live comments, left pane is live tree view.
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- On mobile, allow you to switch between them. Default?
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## Resources / Potential Libraries
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- Use the [activitypub crate.](https://docs.rs/activitypub/0.1.4/activitypub/)
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- https://docs.rs/activitypub/0.1.4/activitypub/
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- [Activitypub vocab.](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/)
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- [Activitypub main](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/)
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- [Diesel to Postgres data types](https://kotiri.com/2018/01/31/postgresql-diesel-rust-types.html)
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- [helpful diesel examples](http://siciarz.net/24-days-rust-diesel/)
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- [Mastodan public key server example](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/)
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- [Recursive query for adjacency list for nested comments](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/192220/what-is-the-most-efficient-elegant-way-to-parse-a-flat-table-into-a-tree/192462#192462)
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## TODOs
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- Endpoints
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- DB
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- Followers / following
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