Heya @dachary,
Yeah feel free to offload this work. Unfortunately due to my PhD, Security issues and other work in Gitea I’ve not been able to dedicate time to getting this work started - I’m deeply ashamed of this and quite frustrated that I haven’t been able to get this started.
I am concerned however, that ActivityPub isn’t going to be the correct way to get this going and also within Gitea itself we need a significant amount of antispam work to be done before this goes.
I’d be happy to talk technically about this