Notices tagged with activitypub
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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 29-Jan-2021 20:43:41 UTC ![Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]](https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/avatar/4152-48-20190707060419.png)
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@musicman My understanding is that some came to the #ActivityPub side of the #Fediverse, but most went to #Gab, #Minds, and similarly #corpocentric platforms. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 18:28:49 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
"The post"{https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@Elizafox/105562613778968936} seemed to be a lot of fear-mongering, even more than the article itself.
(1) #Twitter has millions of users. There is no #ActivityPub nor #OStatus implementation in which an instance hosted on a $5/mo #DigitalOcean / #Linode / #Vultr #VPS could handle the volume of a seamless connection with #Twitter. If they adopted AP OStatus, #Diaspora, or any other current open federation protocol, instances that didn't use firewall blocking would topple once the two userbases had sufficient interconnections (within a few hours or a few days after they started federating).
(2) Twitter's business model is to push ads disguised as tweets. If their users could escape those and still interact with all the same contacts, they would. I'm certain that Twitter's management know this. They also turn all links into tracking links, and sell access to media (images, video, audio) uploads of important news events to news organizations.
(3) Most Fediverse instances are financed out of the admin's pocket. Some have financial contributors, but nothing like Twitter's revenue. As the largest and best-financed instance, they would immediately have to start implementing modifications to make AP or other existing federation protocols useful to them, and those modifications would (as Mastodon's currently do) become unofficially mandatory in order to be compatible.
(4) This isn't the first time that Twitter has considered federation, though this may be the first time they openly discussed it. Back when Identica was still a happening place (during Twitter's fail-whale days), Twitter considered federating. They didn't do it then, and I honestly do not believe they will do it now.
(5) I'd say that Twitter's #BlueSky initiative is more meant to try to get bidirectional connections across #Facebook's moat and wall than it is to surround Twitter with a cloud of #Fediverse instances. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 18-Dec-2020 21:20:44 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Now discussing changes needed to switch to #ActivityPub instead of their #Pump.io protocol (an ancestor of AP). -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jul-2020 21:11:03 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/issues/160#issuecomment-19742
It looks like #ActivityPub support is getting closer. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2020 23:04:26 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@simsa03 Yes. They are working on finishing #ActivityPub support for the 2.0 release. Then comes some serious re-architecting for the 3.0 release. Along the way, at least one new theme should be released. -
AndStatus (andstatus)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2020 15:17:50 UTC 
AndStatus
#AndStatus v.56.09 (326) released. "Show numbers of likes, replies and reblogs for a Note
1. Show numbers of likes, replies and reblogs for Mastodon; likes and retweets for Twitter. Added similar to #ActivityPub #C2S, hope the same counters will be supported there also.
2. Added Actors's name ("Real name") as a separate field to Actor's profile. Created landscape layout for Actor's profile. https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5933715 -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2020 01:41:39 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/8642 #Friendica Someone that is familiar with #Diaspora is writing a new socnet based on #ActivityPub, wishes to change other #Fediverse software to follow Diaspora's model (viewer's server hijacks hashtags so the #hashtag search points to the viewer's home server, not the original poster's home server). The model that has been followed by almost all federated socnets for over a decade is that hashtag search links are inserted by the poster's server and point back there.
IMO, a remote server changing the links is sketchy as heck*, but if they added local hashtag links in a separate area outside the post itself, that's acceptable. Or if they followed the #Pump.io idea of keeping hashtags completely separate from the basic server, then an external server (e.g. ragtag\.io) would be called to index and link the tag during the posting process, and searches would be performed based on results from the tag server.
Anyway, I can't be bothered logging into Github to comment, but maybe @heluecht and other Friendica devs will see this and take this into consideration.
* Remote servers editing the contents of one's posts is about as sketchy as it gets. There are rare occasions where that may be acceptable (i.e., to insert NSFW tags / image hiding on posts from instances where untagged NSFW content originates), but editing content to hijack hashtag search is about as questionable as one could get. -
AndStatus (andstatus)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2020 10:18:21 UTC
AndStatus
AndStatus v.55.01 Beta with "ActivityPub Client to Server improvements".
Download from: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/456
1. This release was focused on supporting new and improved #ActivityPub features that appeared both in #Pleroma and, surprisingly, in #Mastodon also. You can really start experimenting with ActivityPub social network type if you have an account at Pleroma site with latest v.2.x Pleroma builds... Posting with image attachments works.
2. Mastodon (not AndStatus!) doesn't give you enough features to switch client connection to ActivityPub simply because Home timeline and posting via ActivityPub connection is not supported yet (corresponding pages give 404 Not found error).
But you can see our own posts on Mastodon servers and navigate to other Actors and their post via them (you can see profiles of other Actors and see their posts...). You can even play with Mastodon as an "ActivityPub" type Social network in AndStatus today! But prepare to see empty Home timeline and to be read-only there for now. Switch to "Sent" timeline and see your Actor's posts, see other actors and their posts similarly...
These new Mastodon improvements make me very optimistic about the future of ActivityPub in client apps across all server platforms.
3. Some important fixes, including more Avatars and Images will be shown.
4. More convenience for developers. Logging of network level messages (including response headers) improved. Even file names with responses are much clearer now, e.g. 2020-04-25-03-34-51-663_social.tulsa.ok.us-oauth_register_client_response.json or 2020-04-25-03-35-02-235_mastodon.technology-get_actor_response.json (real names from my log). Remember that logs are stored for 10 days and can be optionally included in a Backup!
Server developers, please use AndStatus as your testing client! https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5911794 -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2020 16:17:51 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@licho #Mastodon 3.x and #Pleroma 2x no longer speak the #OStatus federation protocol. !GNUsocial 2.0 will add the #ActivityPub federation protocol, so ask your admin to be ready to upgrade soon. -
AndStatus (andstatus)'s status on Monday, 06-Apr-2020 16:24:35 UTC
AndStatus
@diogo Thank you for your explanation. Now I really see a page on the loadaverage site that tells its server version. And #AndStatus still successfully connects to the server (I'm writing to you using it).
This means that the authentication problem that I reported is caused by a configuration of a concrete server, and not by the latest version of #GnuSocial :-)
Using a chance to talk with you, I hope that you will find time for Client-to-Server #ActivityPub API also. I'm extending support of that API in AndStatus, and already see that not only #Pleroma, but even some #Mastodon sites begin to implement some parts of the API, allowing a Client app to request information directly from its sources, without a need to duplicate it. E.g. Notes by an Actor may be requested from the Actor's profile (from the Actor's outbox) at his site, and not from the server, at which the User of the Client app has an account...
@colegota @xrevan86 -
AndStatus (andstatus)'s status on Thursday, 26-Mar-2020 18:00:00 UTC
AndStatus
@roka It works!
Thank you for noticing #ActivityPub support. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2020 16:19:19 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@strypey @clacke #ActivityPub support is already in the #GNU_Social (2.0.0-dev) codebase that many instances currently use, it just isn't working so well (from what I can tell, Mastodon signatures don't verify). They're working on fixing that -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2020 22:29:50 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@xj9 #GNU_Social's #ActivityPub support is not quite ready for use in non-testing instances. Currently, there's a problem with verifying Mastodon's signatures. ( Neither @lain@lain.com nor @tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com can see this response because their instances no longer speak #OStatus. ) -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2020 19:04:33 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
"without nonsense like OCAP" -- https://socially.whimsic.al/objects/7af9cf54-a19b-44ac-ae8e-51c5fdb98ddd
I thought #OCAP was going to save us from ourselves and the non-private no-security* protocol that #ActivityPub turned out to be. I feel like I did when I discovered that there was no Santa Claus.
* There's optional easily subverted stuff like HTTP Signatures, but nothing in the core of AP. -
AndStatus (andstatus)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2020 05:41:27 UTC
AndStatus
@coolboymew I heard recently that #AndStatus doesn't work properly with Pleroma as with "Mastodon type" social network. Didn't investigate this...
But since last year #Pleroma is adding #ActivityPub #C2S (Client to Server) interface, and AndStatus has basic support for this type, checked and tested with Pleroma team! See https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/499
@dielan @thefaico@quitter.se -
AndStatus (andstatus)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2019 16:52:04 UTC
AndStatus
Testing group name autocompletion in #GnuSocial using #AndStatus
!gnusocial
It works already.
Not very impressive yet, because there is NO WAY (yet?!) to get actual metadata for remote groups (actual unique ID, avatar ...)
But adding internal app's infrastructure for Groups support is much more important. It could be used e.g. in #ActivityPub
Where are you, #ActivityPub #C2S (client to server protocol) developers?
@kaniini @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @xrevan86 https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5792570 -
AndStatus (andstatus)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2019 14:36:19 UTC
AndStatus
On adding Group / List support to #AndStatus
Oh, I see that #GNUSocial development is going on: https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social
#ActivityPub Server-to-Server support is being added (and I saw a report that it was successfully tested some days ago...)
Moreover, looking into the source code I found the first-hand info about the system's API .
And although the code, related to Groups support, didn't change for the last six years :-) https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/src/nightly/actions/apitimelinegroup.php , it works and I could actually retrieve the group's timeline at loadaverage.org
The unusual "!groupname" syntax to address a group is not a big problem...
So I'm moving on adding Group support to #AndStatus (whatever it will be actually...) https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5785458 -
AndStatus (andstatus)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2019 15:34:06 UTC
AndStatus
And now in v.52.01I successfully sent and received two images via #ActivityPub #C2S thanks to @lanodan
@AndStatus@queer.hacktivis.me https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5768075 -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2019 22:43:06 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@storm I think #MediaGoblin "paused" their federation effort to focus on #ActivityPub. I don't expect there to have been much development since then. -
Will Murphy πΉ (datatitian)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2019 14:25:47 UTC 
Will Murphy πΉ
@cwebber #guppe adds federated social groups via server2server #ActivityPub implementation in #ExpressJS / #MongoDB
@GuppeGroups
https://github.com/wmurphyrd/guppe
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