As #Fedify's author, I'm contemplating its adoption beyond Ghost's #ActivityPub implementation. Finding potential users for ActivityPub tools seems challenging—perhaps I'm addressing a very niche need?

While the technical complexity of ActivityPub makes tools like Fedify valuable, I wonder about the actual market demand for federation outside specific communities.

Open, decentralized systems make sense to many developers, but businesses often prefer closed ecosystems that align with traditional models.

Still, I see potential as the #fediverse grows and digital sovereignty concerns increase. Fedify aims to lower the technical barriers to federation.

I'm curious: Which projects would benefit most from Fedify today? What would make federation compelling enough for platforms to implement?

Would appreciate perspectives from both developers and platform owners.

@hongminhee I was thinking about implementing something like Foursquare/Swarm on ActivityPub. POI data from OSM. All I need is time 🤣 Looked at Fedify for that but unfortunately it’s just an idea at the moment.

@hongminhee As a developer building a service that is planned to join the fediverse, I'm still uncertain about what the timeline should look like in the fediverse app. Why do users need multiple apps with each timeline sharing some of their content? When you have multiple email accounts, then you might need a single email client that supports all of them at the same time. In which aspect fediverse differs from this situation?

@hongminhee I think that a library that targets the nodejs ecosystem while claiming to want to lower the technical barriers to federation is slightly contradictory.

I can perhaps understand if you mean it that it lowers the technical barriers for other nodejs developers, but in the grand scheme of things, picking something that can be deployed straight to bare metal would be more in line with your goal.

Caveat, I'm entirely biased here, because I chose Go to develop a similar library with a similar goal in mind, so I hope you don't take my critique too much to heart. :D

@hongminhee As a developer who is very interested in the fediverse and fedify, but with no plans to build anything, I feel like it's not something I would be able to use because I don't write server apps in TS/JS.

A thought occurs... Could you consider releasing a version that would be able to run in a sidecar for a container? I don't know what it would look like but getting to use something as stable and strong ad Fedify without having to use it as a library might be quite appealing to non TS/JS devs.

I assume it would take some work and not be as tightly integrated as you might need... It was just something that crossed my mind.

I would love some unusual examples of using the fediverse. How to use it in a blog as the comments, how to use it to publish notifications about your new blog post, that kind of thing. Might open up how folk think about using it. If those are valid examples!

Keep up the great work!

@hongminhee I would love to see federated accounting/invoicing software. In my mind it’s an ideal use case for a few reasons.

Keeping books is all about perspective and usually isolated to the organization but as someone’s asset always represents someone’s elses liability, there are benefits in booking that transaction collaboratively. A federated transaction type post directed at another org (and that org’s reply confirming or rejecting its validity) is basically an invoice, etc.

@hongminhee Looking at the project, gotta admit there's a serious temptation to integrate it somehow with a discord bot framework. (Which would probably be a horrible idea, but the big question is it horrible *enough* of an idea to make it obligatory?)

@hongminhee Could you monetize intranets, forums , etc.