Fedify: ActivityPub server framework
@fedify@hollo.social

DrFed is our sister project, built alongside to tackle the debugging side of development. It just received @nlnet funding and now has its own account here: @drfed.

drfed.org

DrFed — The ActivityPub debugging platform

DrFed is a web-based platform for developing and debugging ActivityPub implementations, built by the team behind Fedify.

DrFed
@drfed@hackers.pub

Some of you have already heard of us as Studio. We now have a proper name: DrFed, short for “Doctor Fed.” We've also just received funding from @nlnet, through the NGI0 Commons Fund.

is a web app for debugging interoperability failures. When two implementations don't federate, the slow part is usually figuring out where the exchange broke: signing, JSON-LD processing, WebFinger, or something less obvious. DrFed's first job is to show where it failed.

We're the team behind @fedify: @2chanhaeng, @gaebalgom, @hongminhee, and @z9mb1. We'll post updates when there's something to try.

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NLnet; DrFed

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@smallcircles@social.coop · Reply to Fedify: ActivityPub server framework

@fedify

Congratulations!

I am really delighted with @nlnet decision to select @drfed for an grant. Having good quality developer tools for creating based solutions is so important for a healthy developer ecosystem.

To anyone reading, bookmark the website..

Fedify Studio is focused on alleviating the most pressing issue of "Why is ActivityPub development so frustratingly hard?" that makes it unattractive for newcomers to adopt the technology. And addresses topics of:

- Protocol complexity
- hell
- Debugging nightmare
- Limited visibility

from the very start has paid attention to ease of use for fediverse solution developers, not just by their library codebase, but with comprehensive documentation and tools to guide people along. Kudos here to @hongminhee who started this great initiative!