Been trying out following podcast feeds on here via https://podcastap.com
Seems to work. You really don't have to sign in with your fediverse account to try. Just use search and find the ActivityPub feed address to input into your client search area. #podcasts#activitypub
How many people read but never post on social media? I think it's pretty high. You need an account to track who you are following for that, but that's it. Isn't this kinda like the podcast experience, where people have an app and an account there but nothing is public? Or consider how most people use YouTube.
Perhaps the #SocialWeb could learn from this. First get people on an app. Setting up their app account gives them an #ActivityPub ID on the developer's default server. Move on from there.
I'm adding new profile fields to #Smithereen, so I would like to ask the fediverse about what kinds of contact info one would expect to be able to add to their profile. So far I've seen:
Personal website/blog
Matrix
XMPP
Telegram
Signal
Phone number
Twitter
Email
I've not yet seen these in fediverse profiles but they are mainstream enough that won't hurt to add:
I'm just a humble country chicken admin, but I've been thinking a lot about the cost of the fediverse and how we can improve it for all of the instances... in a coop kind of way
The cost of handing all of the media is THE major problem for me atm.
I gotta admit, I am very much enjoying @ghost's ActivityPub progress newsletter.
Last week they were having an existential crisis, this week they're saying it's our fault as the users, that ActivityPub is so hard.
(I'm paraphrasing the most dramatic part without context for the read receipts)
Tumblr promised ActivityPub support and then disappeared for 2 years. Ghost promised ActivityPub support, and then their engineers appear each week to tell us how they regret that decision. #activitypub
Writing the most basic #activitypub implementation in #php that is compatible with shared hosting. I've seen some other great projects, but I needed a "call this function with a simple message" functionality for some existing websites
One thing I want to point out about https://pubkit.net is that I know a service like this could be easily abused!
This is why you will have to verify ownership of servers you want to test against
It can be a text file or DNS record, and in special cases, I can make exceptions for devs who want to test against instances they can't publicly verify
The point is, PubKit will be opt-in, and won't require a fediblock, services like these can be done right 😎
#ActivityPub für #WordPress installiert, Blog-Profil @blog (nicht Autor!) aktiviert, in Mastodon gesucht, gefunden und gefolgt. Folgeanfrage taucht aber in WordPress nicht auf.
So, #Smithereen no longer requires a username when signing up. You instead get assigned one automatically, of the form "idXXX" where XXX is the ID for your user record. You can change it later in settings if you wish. Current Mastodon versions handle this change no problem.
The username is only visible in two places:
The URL of your profile
When someone mentions you
So it's not very important. Definitely not important enough to be a required field when you register.
My #ActivityPub server is receiving “GET /poco” requests from #Friendica servers (based on the user-agent). Can anybody point me to the documentation for this behavior? #AskFedi