Çağan Mert İŞLEK ( @islekcaganmert ) asked this question at FediForum 2025 (in the comments).
The answer is — it already exists.
It is called GreatApe.
GreatApe is a conferencing platform for the Fediverse and the Social Web — where an audience can listen & watch live, and can be invited to join the speakers on the stage.
You can try an early MVP here:
With more features being added every week.
GreatApe is a conferencing platform for the Fediverse and the Social Web — where an audience can listen & watch live, and can be invited to join the speakers on the stage.
GreatApe is made up of a number of components — LittleApe (front-end), LogJam (back-end), GoldGorilla (sfu for video), etc.
If you had a really good Internet connection at home (ex: Internet over fiber optics) — you could run GoldGorilla at home on something less powerful than a Raspberry Pi
This is how I am thinking about pointing to the GreatApe WebSocket API in the activity file.
The GreatApe WebSocket API — ActivitySocket ? — is sending ActivityPub activities over a WebSocket, along with some other stuff (such a queries, and commands).
Right now, I am using the "endpoints" field with the sub-field "inoutbox" to point to the WebSockets API end-point.
Join us tomorrow (Friday May 23rd) on GreatApe at:
• 11AM Pacific Time
• 12PM Mountain Time
• 1PM Central Time
• 2PM Eastern Time
• 7PM British Time
• 8PM Central European Time
• 9PM Eastern European Time
• 9:30PM Iran Time
• 11PM Pakistan Time
• 11:30PM India Time
For a live public conversation.
GreatApe is a public conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo) — where an audience can listen to your conversation live.
We are very close to doing a public GreatApe release.
Here is what the OpenGraph preview card will more or less look like — when you a URL to a conversation on GreatApe.
(Although the exact look will depend on which front-end app you are using.)
GreatApe is a public conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo) — where an audience can listen to your conversation live.
We are very close to doing a public GreatApe release.
Just a bit more polishing.
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Taping the "Authorize" button (on Mastodon) takes me back to GreatApe.
Where I can set up a live video conversation — either to start immediately, or scheduled for the future.
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Tapping the "Next" button takes me to my Mastodon server.
Although, the text on this Mastodon screen doesn't make it obvious — this is what logging in with Mastodon looks like.
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If you tap the "Login With Mastodon" button, you will be taken to a screen that looks something like this.
A few popular Mastodon servers are already listed.
But, if your Mastodon server is not on that list, you can also choose it, by telling GreatApe the URL to your Mastodon server.
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Here is the login screen.
You don't have to create a separate GreatApe account. Instead, you use your existing Fediverse account.
Right now, you can log into GreatApe using your Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, or PeerTube account.
(We plan to add support for logging in with other Fediverse and DeSo software, too.)
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GreatApe is a conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo).
Here is what it is like to log into GreatApe.
In this case, using Mastodon.
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GreatApe is a conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo).
Here is what the GreatApe login screen looks like on a mobile-phone web-browser.
With GreatApe you do NOT have to create a separate GreatApe account.
With GreatApe you use your existing account on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, or PeerTube to login.
(We plan to support more Fediverse and DeSo logins later.)
GreatApe is a conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo).
When logging into GreatApe, you don't have to create an account on GreatApe.
Instead you can use your Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, or PeerTube account.
That is what @muhammadzaidali is working on right now.
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You would first sign into GreatApe using your Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, PeerTube, etc account.
(I.e., no need to create a separate GreatApe account.)
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GreatApe update:
I am working on pushing out an MVP for GreatApe.
The GreatApe MVP will act as an add-on to other Fediverse (and DeSo other) software.
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