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1. ༺NIX༻ (nx@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 00:21:22 JST ༺NIX༻

   • Delta Chat

   Isn’t activitypub similar enough to email that delta chat could be forked to be an activitypub messenger with end to end encryption like it does for email messaging?

   @delta

   • Delta Chat (delta@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 00:21:15 JST Delta Chat

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     • Lemmy

     @nx @LemmyDev I asked around in a dev chat - whether it's possible depends a lot on whether ActivityPub offers additional fields for metadata. In E-Mail you can just add more headers, not sure how easy that is with ActivityPub. Maybe the @LemmyDev folks know it out of their head?

   • ༺NIX༻ (nx@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 00:21:20 JST ༺NIX༻

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     • Lemmy
     • Delta Chat

     @delta maybe the team thats makes @LemmyDev could help since it’s built using Rust and they’ve been documenting stuff really well

   • Delta Chat (delta@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 00:21:21 JST Delta Chat

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     @nx it's conceptually similar but API/protocol-wise quite different. If someone would try to implement another transport layer in our Rust Core library then a big part of the apps would "just work". But that is a big if, and not a trivial undertaking.

   • Lemmy (lemmydev@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 00:21:38 JST Lemmy

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     • Delta Chat

     @delta Activitypub is based on json, so you can add as much extra data as you want even if its not mentioned in the standard. Only problem is that other platforms would not necessarily understand it.

     As you mention Rust, I am currently working on a major update for the activitypub-federation crate which improves usability and documentation. I will publish a release candidate in the next days.

     https://github.com/LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust

     @nx