Facebook Messenger Alternatives Redux (Federated and Non-Federated) 2018-12-13

While I post mostly on Fediverse platforms like Diaspora and Mastodon , and am focusing my development efforts there, the instant messaging accessibility of Facebook Messenger has been illusive. I tried Wickr and it’s okay but not the most user friendly. It’s claim to fame is the messages only go from the participant to the receiver without a server between except for authentication. That makes the flow clunky, to say the least. Which is why leaving Facebook has been one of my least successful aspects. I wanted to explore other options and in the last week I pulled the trigger and actually did it.

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Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 25 2018-12-13 With the documentation changes wrapped up, but holding off on PR’s until things solidify up a bit more from the code scrub process, it was time to move on to the OpenID deep dive and review. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 24 2018-12-11 Yesterday I said the paging API was complete but needed to be reviewed. The more I talked over some elements with people and in exchanges on Diaspora I realized there were a couple of tweaks I needed to do. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 23 2018-12-09 After a day of coding the paging is now in every endpoint that should have it. That means that we have paging right now for: Contacts Photos Posts Comments Notifications Conversations (but not messages in conversations) Search Streams Because of the size of the code changes I would imagine there will at least be some tweaking and I could imagine there being some larger refactoring afterward too but it’s in a solid, working, and as performant space as the existing standard endpoints so I’m happy with it. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 22 2018-12-08 Paging paging and more paging. I haven’t been committing as much time to development the last few days as I’d like. Some of that is frustration with the development process on the paging, which has been a lot of trial and error. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 21 2018-12-05 Coming up with a paging infrastructure for the API while looking at all of the ways it could be used and abused hasn’t been fun. Not that it hasn’t been totally worthwhile. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 20 2018-12-04 Now that we’ve hit feature complete status it’s about getting more of the legwork down to get us really ready for integration. The first necessary feature we need before that is paging. (More ...)

Open Source Dot-Net is 4 years old and going strong! 2018-12-04 It seems like just a couple of years ago that Microsoft, the evil empire of the 1990s and early 200s, embraced open source and put the .NET ecosystem into the open source. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 19 2018-12-02 We’ve finally reached the milestone we’ve all been waiting for. With the completion of the Search API Endpoint the Diaspora API is now feature complete. That doesn’t mean that it’s ready for integration into the mainline branch. (More ...)

Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 18 2018-12-01 After the long-winded post a few days ago on the API Status the latest update is pretty brief but important: Notifications API endpoint, unit tests, and test harness are complete Work on the last endpoint (search) has begun. (More ...)