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evan

@evan@cosocial.ca

EH-vin pruh-DROH-moh.

He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.

Director of Open Technology at Open Earth Foundation (OEF).

Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR.

Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.

Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.

Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.

This network has been my life's work. Thanks for making it.

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evan, to random
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OK, I've got a question for developers. I'm working on an extended example for the O'Reilly Media book I'm writing, focusing on the federation protocol. I'm going to cover using HTTP Signature, handling and sending the important set of Activity types defined in the AP spec (Follow, Create, Add, ...).

evan, to random
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I'm interested in hearing from developers who've successfully mapped properties from <meta> tags in Web pages onto the Page type and its properties in AS2.

evan,
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@trwnh that's about what I'd expect as a mapping. Have you seen it used to create Page objects, for link previews?

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@trwnh you mean, on the receiving servers?

evan,
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@trwnh another option is accepting the sender-provided metadata to start, and then verifying on a schedule that recognizes that thundering herd problem -- say, a randomized delay between 1 and 300 seconds, with an exponential backoff. And I definitely think having a trusted shared caching server can help immensely.

mike, to random
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Every now and then, technologists are able to translate their strongly held beliefs into action for the benefit of society. Sometimes these actions result in new features, apps or platforms but it's especially powerful when this happens at the protocol level.

In the latest episode of Dot Social I talk with @evan about how he helped get #ActivityPub started, how it's going, and what he hopes for next. Check it out here.

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-evan-prodromou/

evan,
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@mike thanks! It was a fun interview.

evan, to random
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#ActivityPub is the default social networking protocol because we took the time to standardise it at the W3C.

You don't have to be part of the W3C to build on top of ActivityPub. You can make extensions and new applications without ever dealing with a formalised standards organisation.

But the benefit of having the W3C behind us is crystal clear. There have been dozens of distributed social networks, and none has gotten as much traction as AP and AS2.

evan,
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There are some folks who want a faster-moving, constantly-updated AP and AS2 docs.

We have a great process for making new extensions and applications of AP and AS2. It moves fast and is really loose:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

And you can do this kind of development outside of the FEP process, too.

AP and AS2 need to move slow and stable so everyone can build on them. Extensions can be fast and wild, because that's where new things happen.

evan, to random
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I think it's been mentioned before but I just want to make sure that everyone here knows that we are having THREE sessions at next week.

TPAC is a hybrid working event for the W3C. Some of us will be in person in Seville. If you're not, you can call in and participate remotely.

Details here!

https://www.w3.org/2023/09/TPAC/participation.html

evan,
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Meeting details!

12 September 2023 9:30-11AM CET

This is our main meeting and we'll be covering a lot of different topics. Hopefully addressing extensions!

https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/5aafc3e5-aac6-49f8-bcc4-3afd7fb00ce6/

13 September 2023 12:15-13:15 CET

A session on test suites, including next steps from previous special meeting.

https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/919c2a7d-e925-4249-8a29-09001c15b48a/

13 September 2023 14:30-5:30 CET

A session on data portability.

https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/46ce9082-710a-4fe2-8cf8-5dcdc207c877/

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