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chava via wakest

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:08:05 -0800 from AndStatus

Posting from #AndStatus

Is this thing on?

#Zap

mike

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:20:31 -0800

Seems to work.

wakest

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:22:31 -0800

@chava wow AndStatus supports Zap now?!

chava

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:39:26 -0800

@˗ˏˋ WKST ˎˊ˗
I think it's had compatibility all along. AndStatus supports GNUSocial. Zap includes an addon to use Twitter/StatusNet API.

So I essentially used AndStatus to log into Zap as GNUSocial. Mas o menos.

wakest

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:43:05 -0800

@chava wow that’s cool. A wonder what you can do when apis are actually standardized

chava

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:45:13 -0800

It only occurred to me to give it a try after reading a mention in the 'zilla doco:

Many existing social applications and tools can interface directly using the Twitter/StatusNet API, which is available using the 'twitter_api' addon.

So I enabled the Twitter API addon in Zap and logged in from AndStatus as a GNUSocial network.

I still prefer Zap's web interface, but AndStatus may have it's use-case.

Tanja

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:02:30 -0800

@chava Thanks for the elaboration; I was curious about how you got that to work. Just tried it myself, just to see what it looks like. It sort of works, but there's most definitely some quirks. For example, it showed Mike's post about the repository being unstable as a reply to this post for some reason.
I also tried the Fedilab app, which connected, but kept crashing. I think I'm sticking with Nomad for now. Possibly not an option for Zap, though, because it is aimed at Hubzilla, which still uses /network instead of /stream. Haven't tried it with Zap yet.

lotfi

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:10:44 -0800

@Tanja Nomad works relatively fine with Zap. But I can't say more, cause I don't use it much.

chava

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:57:11 -0800

@Tanja Yeah, it's definitely quirky. Maybe messing with the settings can get it to some kind of basic usable state. Not sure what the use-case is yet, but maybe I'll find one. Now thinking about trying out other possibly compatible apps, maybe Twidere. I used Nomad with Zap a while ago, it was fine though I wish there was a way of adding customizable shortcuts (like /stream).

chava

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:54:58 -0700 from AndStatus

Well... AndStatus + Zap is good for offline (unthreaded) browsing and composing/posting. I get notifications of mentions but can't seem to pull up the actual post where the mention occurs. It appears as "id:1234/site updated" but doesn't open up associated thread. Trying to open in browser results in Page Not Found. Oh and no images. I'll keep clicking around though.