[Feature] Add Support for Pleroma

[ghbjklhv]

Feature: Add Support for Pleroma.
What is Pleroma?: Pleroma is a free software Mastadon compatible social network.

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[alicerunsonfedora]

We're definitely aiming to fix Pleroma support! We know that most APIs work correctly since Mastodon and Pleroma have similar API endpoints, though it is causing some performance issues (see #1). Not sure if it still occurs with this version of Hyperspace, but once we get most of the UI stuff out of the way, we'll look into making this a better experience.

[bleonard252]

My Pleroma instance seems to run very well on Hyperspace. The number one bug I'm running into is the About page-- it flashes a "Loading" screen then the whole page blanks. The Firefox Inspector shows an empty div.root element.

[alicerunsonfedora]

@bleonard252 I've filed your issue separately. Could you please report details on your issue there?

[bleonard252]

I'll try to handle this and #69 in bleonard252-forks/hyperspace/pleroma-support, on this board.

Let me know some other things I can try to help with. I'll PR it when I feel I'm done.

[alicerunsonfedora]

Update to Pleroma support: it appears that the "Show new posts" button doesn't appear at all on Pleroma instances, maybe due to the way timelines are streamed.

Reference: #77

[alicerunsonfedora]

Alright, so thus far, we know the following things are now working in Pleroma:

• Login and timeline viewing
• Regular performance speeds ([Bug] Performance hit on Pleroma instance #1)
• About page doesn't go berserk (About page blanks in Pleroma instances #69)

However, it also appears that there might be a problem with timeline streaming in general with Pleroma since the timeline just populates incorrectly (#77).

[alicerunsonfedora]

The streaming issue from my initial tests appears to be a problem with Pleroma not having streaming in this manner rather than an issue with Hyperspace. Attempting to switch to WebSockets also causes some issues on the browser side of things, namely due to the way Megalodon seems to handle them.

I'm guessing that streaming via HTTPS will make it to Pleroma sooner or later, but it appears as if other important features work just fine. For now, I'm going to mark this as complete.