Things I can do now:
- follow people
- unfollow people
- be followed by people
- block people
- post things
- post replies to other posts
- read a timeline of posts
- read a thread of posts
- read reports
- read profiles
- edit profiles
- federate all of the above
- block servers
- import blocklists
- create an account
- manage passwords
- log in and out

Things I still need:
- search for people

That last thing is in progress now, and will hopefully be done enough to be useful this weekend.

So!

It would be nice to have a few people who could help to do some interoperability testing, and generally shake things out. Possibly as soon as next week. Preferably, you would be comfortable running a server and a database, and doing testing, troubleshooting, and things like that.

If that sounds like you, and you want to help out with a new fedi backend, hmu

And if this is the first you're hearing about any of this, then you may be interested in letterbook.com

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