Kind of a weird thought I’ve been kicking around…
So, it’s possible to use the Mastodon API for sign-in and authentication, right?
Would it be possible to leverage a remote Mastodon account as a user account in a Web app, then give it the ability to create an Activity within the app, without creating a Note on Mastodon?
I’ve been kind of thinking about having an app where people can sign in and submit Event activities to a Group. I don’t want to create a bunch of Actor accounts, but I don’t mind the idea of having a Group Actor delegate on behalf of signed-in users with MastoAPI.
If this sounds like “Poor Man’s c2s”, yeah, that’s basically it.
Sean Tilley
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2025-04-14 19:39:41 UTC
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