VAAK: My Little Two and a Half Week Old Fediverse App

Welcome to the world of using Mastodon, Akkoma, GoToSocial and deciding that none of them do all of the things I’ve always wanted to do with software on the fediverse. All of them having strengths, and also weaknesses, and taking years to implement features. This goes doubly hard for Mastodon. I see you, post queues, hanging out in the background non-implemented! But, now we live in a world where you can take the things you know, your experience, and knowledge, and explode it like a nuclear bomb. Enter: VAAK This kind of started as a: Hey, my domain is still receiving ActivityPub queries a year after I shutdown this domain’s Mastodon instance? Well, why not make some kind of little thing that can resolve those queries and allow me to read some AP timelines right from my website! Which turned into: Okay, but what if my blog posts also posted directly to this and skipped the massive scripts that send it off to my Mastodon instance? Which turned into: What if this was just a fully…

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