Notices tagged with activitypub, page 2

FEP-fe34: Origin-based security model has been published. It supersedes FEP-c7d3: Ownership and describes authentication of ActivityPub objects in simpler terms.
I think ownership is still useful for authorization and access control, so that part was copied from FEP-c7d3.

#fep #activitypub

#bluesky is telling their history without mentioning that #ActivityPub and #mastodon already existed. saying they wanted to open up social media. pathetic.

https://www.twitch.tv/blueskysocial

@GeePawHill @jenniferplusplus

If the switch from corporate #SocialMedia to decentralized #SocialWeb were frictionless already, then we couldn't handle the influx without losing said culture and see massive corporate takeover on the #Fediverse.

In that light considering the definition of Social Web to be multi-protocol with e.g. #ActivityPub #Bluesky and others fits the bill best.

Personally I discern a #Peopleverse (socio-cultural), a Social Web (socio-technical) and protocols (technical).

Mam już #Loops, natomiast jestem zawiedziony brakiem obsługi #ActivityPub.
W każdym razie jeśli ktoś z Was też już ma tam konto, może mnie zaobserwować.

What are the *technical* steps behind moving a Mastodon account?

I understand how to do it from a user perspective (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move) but what does the new server need to do?

Is it as simple as adding an "aliases" to the webfinger?

#MastodonAPI #ActivityPub

Hi @julian @aSeppoToTry @canary,
hm, interesting. I doubt there is a correct answer. Because #Webfinger doesn't care about #ActivityPub and ActivityPub doesn't care about Webfinger neither specifies how to construct the handle from a profile document. It would have to be explicitly mentioned which it isn't. All other is idiosyncratic, proprietary oracles.

According to https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ the actor id is the canonical identifier.

With best faith #Seppo combines the preferredUserName and the profile document's domain. What else could you do?

I am publishing a small #ActivityPub / #fediverse project: https://fietkau.software/webfinger_canary and @canary 🙂

It is a tiny bot showcasing a split-domain WebFinger setup, where the handle domain is different from the ActivityPub server domain. This is supported by Mastodon and some other ActivityPub implementations, but not all of them.

So this project, aimed at devs and power users, is part test case, part feature recommendation/advocacy. The bot's website at https://correct.webfinger-canary.fietkau.software/ has all the details.

Hi @julian @canary,
what problem are you solving? Why should the domains have to match? And bad implementations happen. #Webfinger

https://dev.seppo.social/2024-03-19/apchk.cgi/webfinger?redirect=self&resource=@canary@correct.webfinger-canary.fietkau.software

P.S.: Are you aware #webfinger isn't part of #activitypub?

I've been developing an #ActivityPub C2S-based (with extensions) API facade/proxy proof-of-concept for Mastodon. It runs as a separate process that supports proxying the Masto operations but also adds a postable C2S outbox with support for AP C2S activities. These activities are converted into upstream Mastodon API calls. This extended C2S API also supports search, streaming events, managing bookmark collections, and retrieving timeline collections. 1/2

Mitra, honestly, isn't a bad social network.....the problem is, as well as with Friendica, that Mastodon killed Fediverse.

Which means small amount of users for other social networks that use Activity Pub protocol.

#mastodon #mitra #friendica #fediverse #activitypub

I submitted a draft FEP describing the Mastodon and LitePub/Pleroma #ActivityPub relay protocols. Comments and corrections are welcome.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ae0c/fep-ae0c.md

Does anybody know which #ActivityPub relay implementation is the most widely deployed?

What would it take to add decentralised identity (e.g. W3C DIDs) to the Fediverse? Who is already working on this?

Bluesky's AT Protocol is a great proof of concept, but probably isn't the endgame. Abstracting Fediverse identity using hostnames and WebFinger is another useful experiment, but again probably not the endgame.

#DecentralizedIdentity #ATProtocol #W3C #ActivityPub

@renchap
Mastodon gGmbH is listed as a partner of the #SocialWebFoundation!
The mission of SWF does not match, if not contradicts the purpose and object of the gGmbH.
In my point of view this is the beginning of "embrace, extend and extinguish" of #activitypub like we saw with #xmpp

@aral @TomWellborn

I'm building a public Autospam detection service that will be compatible with Pixelfed, Mastodon and other projects!

I'm leveraging my expertise* in Autospam, along with my 3 year old dataset to build the best fediverse Akismet alternative.

Are you interested? Boosts appreciated!

* - https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves

#pixelfed #fediverse #spam #autospam #activitypub #mastodon

🥳 Exciting news! @loops, the #Fediverse's answer to TikTok, receives a grant from @nlnet! 🎉

Get ready for a new era of personalized short-form videos, remixes, and community interaction - all with the freedom and privacy of #ActivityPub!

https://nlnet.nl/project/Loops/

groups.

october pixelfed
seventh social

the new social pub, with friends.

#groups #activityPub #lemmy #smithereen #pixelfed

Mastodon doesn't implement the #ActivityPub "API" (C2S). They don't conform to either the client or server profiles in the AP Recommendation. They implement a very small subset of AP/AS2 and they don't conform to the AS2 Recommendation for the parts they implement. Their software supports > 80% of the MAU in the Fediverse (all protocols, not the SWF definition). And Evan uses this as evidence of ActivityPub's success? I think Mastodon has thrived despite ActivityPub problems, not because of it.