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why so many apps for lemmy but none for kbin? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by ikantolol@kbin.social to c/random@kbin.social

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why so many apps for lemmy but none for kbin?

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[–] Downcount@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I understand there might be a need to develop different server to client APIs if the services that implement activity pub are very different (lemmy / mastodon). But lemmy and kbin are basically the same shit in different colours.This would be a good case to use / reuse / develop a standard API for server-client communications, I would think so.

[–] Zephyrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree, standardization would be good.

It’s entirely up to the developers to collaborate and implement according to the spec though. ActivityPub wasn’t really designed with this use-case in mind, so the spec has limitations that warrant a specialized API, or extensions to the AP spec.

For example, the outbox is an OrderedCollection. This is how you would list posts in a magazine/community. However, there’s no way to sort by other metrics such as hot, top, or trending. Even Mastodon has its own REST API.