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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

It doesn't take much effort to make your website join the Fediverse and the open social-web IN A VERY BASIC WAY,.

And by "VERY BASIC WAY" I mean — being able to look up your website using a Fediverse ID and have a profile show up.

I did it for my (new) personal website last night.

(Screenshot of the profile Mastodon shows for my (new) personal website attached.)

NOTE: DO NOT FOLLOW IT YET. FOLLOWING DOESN'T WON'T WORK YET.

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All I had to do was —

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/112133984854710390

"A guide to implement ActivityPub in a static site (or any website)" by @mapache

https://maho.dev/2024/02/a-guide-to-implement-activitypub-in-a-static-site-or-any-website/

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse

A guide to implement ActivityPub in a static site (or any website)

Hi! I have created this index for easy navigation. In Part 1, we will discuss why it is important to bring your site to the Fediverse. In Part 2, we will delve into an overview of the design of my implementation. In Part 3, we will make your blog discovereable in the fediverse. In Part 4, we will generate our notes and outbox, which contains posts ready to be shared in the Fediverse. Part 5, is an interlude to implement a subscribing to your site feature with fediverse accounts.

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@[email protected] · 3 days ago

I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.

When is something a "Note"‽
When is something an "Article"‽

Personally — I would probably have made the distinction this way.

An "Article" has a title.
A "Note" doesn't have a title.

(In ActivityPub / ActivityStreams, a 'title' seems to tend to get represented in the "name" field.)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@[email protected] replied · 3 days ago

In the old blogging software I created back in the 1990s, I had a handful of posts types

There was a type of rich-text oriented post that had a title. (Article)

And, there way another type of rich-text oriented post that did not have a title. (Note)

(There were also other types of posts, but they aren't relevant here)

These 2 types of posts were rendered / displayed differently

I.e., my 1990s software already had this distinction

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@[email protected] · 3 days ago

I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.

When is something a "Note"‽
When is something an "Article"‽

Personally — I would probably have made the distinction this way.

An "Article" has a title.
A "Note" doesn't have a title.

(In ActivityPub / ActivityStreams, a 'title' seems to tend to get represented in the "name" field.)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse

Evan Prodromou

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

@julian

I haven't seen anyone use Add and Remove activities to notify updates to the `outbox`. I don't think it would work; it's too recursive.

I've done it for other feeds, like `replies` or `followers`, and it works pretty well.

@smallcircles

just small circles 🕊

@[email protected] replied · 4 days ago

just small circles 🕊

@[email protected] · 5 days ago

@thisismissem @eyeinthesky

The biggest folly imho is this idea of "let's cram every domain into #ActivityStreams somehow". Flatten everything and project it onto this small set of social primitives that AS defines.

It is once more a choice of pragmatism: "Hey, I've seen it working with Mastodon, so I copied that. And #LinkedData extension mechanism is a handwaved horror show".

So understandable perhaps that we did it. But now we must overcome this trend which has taken stubborn root and drags the ecosystem down.

@evan @julian

#ActivityPub builds on top of #ActivityStreams in the sense that it adopted a number of its 'social primitives' defined in its vocabulary, and Collection being among those. These particular uses become 'protocol space', but other than that AS from the perspective of AP solution development is purely a set of social primitives, granular building blocks that one *may* use in a solution. AS is a utility library of sorts then. Or is that a wrong perception?

A 'feed' is something that lives in solution space, and I would only choose Collection to model it, if it offers a perfect fit in functionality. And aboveall.. does not assign some new app-specific use along the way.

I tooted today that I feel the biggest folly of the fedi is that everyone tries to cram their domain into the AS namespace. The AS primitives should not be Swiss army knives and have only singular well-defined meaning and purpose, yet they have become that along the way.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116096886732404993

just small circles 🕊

@[email protected] · 5 days ago

@thisismissem @eyeinthesky

I think we underrated the power of the actor model and the extent we can incorporate it on the #ActivityPub fediverse. Somehow we got eternally stuck in talking about HTTP plumbing and core protocol capabilities that we never fleshed out thoroughly in order to be able to just focus on the higher-level concerns of app and service modeling.

Actor systems based on loosely-coupled event-driven architecture, delegation, supervision, supervision strategies, inbox strategies, let-it-fail, actors fronting domain aggregates, service-orientation, etc.

just small circles 🕊

@[email protected] replied · 5 days ago

@thisismissem @eyeinthesky

The biggest folly imho is this idea of "let's cram every domain into #ActivityStreams somehow". Flatten everything and project it onto this small set of social primitives that AS defines.

It is once more a choice of pragmatism: "Hey, I've seen it working with Mastodon, so I copied that. And #LinkedData extension mechanism is a handwaved horror show".

So understandable perhaps that we did it. But now we must overcome this trend which has taken stubborn root and drags the ecosystem down.