Notices by Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)

WOOOOOO We're doing a Social Web devroom at FOSDEM 2025!!! Sweet.

@julian @darius I started a new FEP to define a vocabulary specifically for threads.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/406

@dmitri @helge @silverpill really?! You "highly agree" with off-boarding people from ActivityPub?!

@dmitri @helge @silverpill Ah, that makes much more sense! Thanks for the clarification.

@erincandescent @julian @trwnh @silverpill a thread is a tree with a root. Every non-root node in the tree has an `inReplyTo` that points to one of the other nodes.

It's represented by a `Collection` in the `context` property of each object. (I don't like this, but it's common so we should just use it).

It's in reverse-chronological order.

If you started at the root node and walked the tree using the `replies` collection, you should visit exactly the same nodes as in the `context` collection.

So, who is in the Free/Open Source software community in Brazil, advising the government on how to move to the Fediverse? And how can I help you?

@silverpill @julian cool, thanks for the link. I'll add it to the issues list.

https://manifold.markets/browse?q=activitypub

ActivityPub prediction markets

@silverpill @jonny @steve srsly tho, advanced portability?

@silverpill @jonny @steve

```
evanp@Evans-MacBook-Pro mastodon % grep "^a" /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n 1
astroglia
evanp@Evans-MacBook-Pro mastodon % grep "^p" /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n 1
parbuckle
```

Astroglia Parbuckle.

@silverpill @jonny @steve youre implying that this is the standard activitypub way to retrieve objects, which it is not. please change the name.

@silverpill @jonny @steve thats a very misleading protocol name and identifier; you should use a different one.

@steve collections can contain IDs or object representations.

@steve @jonny you can't separate id and location in AP. It's a requirement. Every id has to be dereferenceable. That is a feature, not a bug.

Hey Fediverse friends. 👋🏼

I am in the ICU right now. I was hit by a car while walking to a cafe yesterday morning and I have 9 broken ribs. It hurts a lot.

My wife and brothers are taking great care of me. I'm very lucky. The hospital is great.

I should be out of the hospital next week and back online later in the week.

@alex @Gargron I think making accounts private by default (manually approving followers, distributing to followers only) would be mostly effective. Not ironclad but a step in the right direction.

@Gargron @jack It is? Are we talking about the same thing? I'm thinking of the schema.org microdata markup added to HTML pages. I get that it's "linked data" but I don't think it's JSON-LD.

https://schema.org/docs/gs.html

@jack That's not JSON-LD.

@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.

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