What's Manyfold?

manyfold.app

Organising 3d print models

• Browse & Preview
• Organise & Tidy
• Troubleshoot & Convert

...a bit like having your own Thingiverse, but without this:

Self Hosted Container

Operation Modes

• Private single-user
• Multiuser
• Federated!

Federation

manyfold.app/technology/activitypub

f3di namespace

https://purl.org/f3di/ns

Extension properties for 3d content.

• concreteType
• compatibilityNote

...with many more to come.

Name chosen to be platform-independent.

Actors

Activities

Compatibility Notes

Most activities are changes to Actors; these won't show in microblog feeds.

So: post "Compatibility Notes", which describe the other activities.

Federails

gitlab.com/experimentslabs/federails

#federails:matrix.org

Setup

						bundle add federails
					

						# config/routes.rb
						mount Federails::Engine => '/'
					

						rails generate federails:install
						rails generate federails:install:migrations
					

Federails::ActorEntity

							# app/models/user.rb

							class User < ApplicationRecord
								# Include the concern here:
								include Federails::ActorEntity

								# Configure field names
								acts_as_federails_actor username_field: :username, name_field: :name,
									profile_url_method: :user_url
							end
            

Following

							target = Federails::Actor.find_by_account "@floppy@mastodon.me.uk"

							user.federails_actor.following_follows.create(target_actor: target)
						

Incoming requests:

							class User < ApplicationModel
								include Federails::ActorEntity

								after_follow :throw_party

							end
						

Federails::Activity

							Federails::Activity.create!(
								actor: user.federails_actor,
								action: "Create",
								entity: comment
							)
						

Object Serialization

							class Comment < ApplicationRecord

								include Federails::DataEntity
								acts_as_federails_data handles: "Note", actor_entity_method: :commenter

								def to_activitypub_object
									Federails::DataTransformer::Note.to_federation(
										self,
										content: comment.to_html,
										custom: {
											"sensitive" => sensitive,
										}
									)
								end
							end
						

Trust & Safety

https://github.com/manyfold3d/federails-moderation

• "Flag" activities
• Domain blocks