OK, if you'd like to play about with a *very* basic front-end for my Fediverse-location-foursquare-check-in thing, please visit:
SUPER bare-bones. Just a proof of concept.
Here's my blog post about building a personal #Fediverse server in #PHP.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/a-tiny-incomplete-single-user-write-only-activitypub-server-in-php/
It was surprisingly simple. You can *publish* #ActivityPub with very modest computing resources.
If you can see the geotags on @edent_location please send me a screenshot 🙂
Well, my personal #ActivityPub server seems to mostly work!
I wonder if I could move @openbenches from a bot account onto its own server?
Do you prefer post-only bots (which can't reply to you) to be on a bigger instance or run from their own server?
@Edent @openbenches my instinct is that bots would definitely benefit from the "authentication" benefits of being on the same domain as they claim to bot for, if that makes sense.
(i.e. if the openbenches bot is on an openbenches.org server, there's not doubt it's the legit bot)
@Edent I'm quite happy it just being a bot, what benefits would there be for running it on its own server?
@okwithmydecay decentralisation. Not taking up resources on someone else's site. To prove it can be done.
That's about it, really.