Add app.net support

[aaronpk]

Currently the team at app.net has been willing to work with the IndieWeb community, they have microformats2 markup on all of their posts, and support rel-me links for domain verification.

It would be great if bridgy could support app.net as a stopgap until they build in full support for webmention, etc.

API Docs:

• Retrieve posts mentioning a user
• Find stars/reposts of posts

Currently app.net posts contain microformats2 markup, although it needs a little bit of cleanup. Bridgy may need to re-create the markup for now until they can clean it up a bit.

[snarfed]

thanks for the research!

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cc @dariusdunlap, who mentioned interest in this.

[dariusdunlap]

Checking out the API docs, I found a few more things that apply:

https://developers.app.net/reference/resources/post/replies/

• retrieve all posts in the same thread as this post

https://developers.app.net/reference/resources/post/search/

• very useful-looking search, including for hashtags, mentions, links, replies and location

https://developers.app.net/reference/resources/filter/

• May also be useful... " Filter restricts a stream of messages on the server side so your client only sees what it’s interested in."

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if anyone's interested in tackling this, i've written up comprehensive instructions on how to add a new silo to bridgy. feel free to jump in!

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app.net shut down a couple days ago, so we may want to close this issue. the only reason to keep it open i can think of is if anyone is running a separate app.net instance...

[aaronpk]

😦

I thought the app.net server was not open source. It's possible someone has written an API-compatible clone of the server software, but I doubt any of them have enough usage to justify adding this to bridgy.

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aha, thanks. tentatively closing.