Mastodon, Lemmy and Pixelfed support in thunderbird

[Jz80]

I have noticed how thunderbird supports usenet. For many people, activitypub is what usenet used to be. Mastodon is a decentralized microblogging site for short bursts of communication. Lemmy is a link aggregator similar to reddit in many ways for long form communication, and pixelfed is an image sharing site comparable to pinterest. I would like to see support for these apps in thunderbird since activitypub is clearly the future.

[Jon]

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[Nidal]

I was going to write a similar request, so I strongly support this one, because I do strongly believe that ActivityPub and the Fediverse are the right answer and alternative to the commercial and proprietary web

[pikeminnow]

I would also love to see this support come to Thunderbird. Between email, IRC, RSS, and hopefully ActivityPub, Thunderbird could be my go-to for communication and subscription protocols and I won't have to have a web app open in Firefox.

[jvm]

ActivityPub support in Thunderbird would be really useful. It would definitely be an interesting challenge from the design standpoint, because of how flexibly ActivityPub can be used, but it should be possible to support several common scenarios like following feeds (Mastodon) or forum-style discussions (Lemmy). Thunderbird should be supporting open communication standards.