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Activity Pub Support
With Stack Exchange's apparent move towards accepting generative AI in the answers, people might be looking for alternatives. I, personally, recommend Codidact to people regularly.
I tried to determine if ActivityPub was supported, but didn't find anything in the roadmap or issues on Github. I'm wondering if adding ActivityPub support would be viable? It would be great if Codidact were one of the top Fediverse choices for StackExchange alternatives.
It seems to me that adding Fediverse support might draw in more developer support as well.
I'm not certain whether federation fits with the community goals or not, but wanted to broach the topic.
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I'm not sure if this is actually an answer or not, but as suggested in a comment thread, I'll put it out there and see what happens.
My understanding is that Fediverse / ActivityPub support doesn't necessarily have to be both ways. Bidirectional federation is definitely more useful, but there can be some value even in read-only feeds.
Therefore, how about as a first step, in much the same way as with the RSS/Atom feeds, publishing ActivityPub feeds but not implementing support for federation input?
I see this being primarily useful for categories and users; at least on Mastodon, this would map nicely to how people can follow either a hashtag or a user. Since ActivityPub supports threads and sub-threads, follow-up posts to a top-level post could map to replies referencing the original post likely to a largely arbitrary depth. (For example, a question could have its answers and comments, and answers to a question could have their comments, as replies.)
Starting out with read-only (export) federation should avoid many of the issues raised in the previous answer while allowing Codidact/QPixel to at least dip its toes into the Fediverse by letting people follow Codidact communities from and easily share Codidact posts within the Fediverse.
Do note that there may be technical reasons which I am simply unaware of why read-only/export-only ActivityPub support is not feasible or meaningful. If there are, then that would invalidate this suggestion.
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