This #Mastodon / #email bridge <https://tacobelllabs.net/@nkizz/110340426573847934> by @nkizz is just brilliant, but you know what would absolutely ROCK? A #Fediverse server that had native support for #IMAP.
While we're on the topic, I wonder if anybody has thought about building a client with an UX inspired by Usenet newsreaders (personally, MicroPlanet Gravity was one of the few things I missed from Windows when I switched to Linux, would love to see something like that for Mastodon.)
The more I read the #ActivityPub spec the more I see it as an extension of #email and #Usenet protocols. By this I mean I have the feeling that it would be possible to roundtrip e.g. email through AP “losslessly”. Which opens interesting possibilities when considering the development of platform-agnostic AP servers like #Vocata https://codeberg.org/Vocata/vocata
Now I'm dreaming of a client that handles emails, news and AP …
One thing I want to check if AP has some restrictions on message size, and what level of support is there for non-http protocols —I wonder in particular if data: is supported, which would allow “self contained” AP objects including multimedia attachments.
@oblomov ActivityPub requires all objects to be publicly dereferencable using their ID, meaning that if you can make some sort of request to the exact IRI stored as ID, and that request reproduces the exact JSON-LD document, you are fine.
That rules out native e-mail, though. ActivityPub requires a pull mechanism to work.
@Natureshadow
oh right. Damn, there goes my idea. I guess you could still work around it a bit my mapping email/usenet message IDs to more standard URIs, but yeah, it's not as straightforward as I had thought initially.
@nkizz Making the graph accessible in parallel was a design decision in Vocata from the start (the vocatactl utility also operates directly on the graph, instead of talking some IPC to the vocata server) :)
One question: How do you forge the From and To headers, and Message-IDs? I mean, they are required to be valid mail addresses… for vocata-imapd, I considered something like base64(uri)@local.domain or something...
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