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1. Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 11:35:21 JST Evan Prodromou

   One of the things we talked about in the Social Web Working Group was how to include binary data in the ActivityPub objects, like an `Image`. One proposed technique was to base64-encode the data and include it in `content`; another option was to use `data:` URLs in the `url` property of the object. Do any ActivityPub processors currently include inline images or other binary data?

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 11:35:20 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @evan Not us. What would it be for?

   • Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 11:49:28 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron It was one of the features from Activity Streams 1.0 that didn't really survive into 2.0.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 11:49:28 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @evan Probably the closest we've got is the blurhash property, which is a base-something encoded representation of a placeholder image.

   • Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 11:49:30 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron Stuffing a binary object into a text medium. It's not very efficient, but if you don't want to host some small images, like an `icon`, it might be useful.