The San Fransisco Aviation Museum (known as the SFO Museum / https://sfomuseum.org) has launched a massive initiative to federate their whole archive into the #fediverse! They have gone so far as to write their own #ActivityPub software in #Go suited to their needs and open sourced it (https://github.com/sfomuseum/go-activitypub). And have already launched thousands of automated accounts that cover different parts of their collection. It looks like @thisisaaronland is behind the project.
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03/12/activitypub
Thanks to @computersandblues for alerting me of this initiative!
I just watched a presentation by @thisisaaronland about a map installation they did for the museum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2NXeul0Qs
@liaizon @thisisaaronland one account example @recentlyacquired
@liaizon @aaronofsfo huh! this is really cool. I totally share the gist of their motivation (https://github.com/sfomuseum/go-activitypub?tab=readme-ov-file#motivation). I bounced like 3 times from trying to get into AP for those exact reasons.
I hope they get to work on this for a long time!
@mikedev have you followed some of the accounts from streams yet? hows the federation looking from that side?
Haven't tried any posts but all in all it looks fine. Better than most projects on the first announcement. I mean they got the Accept header right - and EVERYBODY stuffs that one up.