NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

@raphael really, that's kind of the whole point of a "fragment" identifier, it identifies a "fragment" of the resource, and its semantics are determined by the media type.for text/html, a fragment corresponds to an id= attribute or otherwise can be read by javascript. see https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/html for "Fragment identifier considerations"

@nik it's not obligatory at all, though? taking a hardline RDF stance and asking anyone who disagrees to "stop developing for ActivityPub" is asking basically all of fedi to stop. they're not going to listen to this, and they're not going to oblige in the slightest.

@jens this is why i put "clever" in quotation marks. like, yes, that's just how references work, no problems there.the problem is that you are taking something that isn't activity+json and sticking it in an activity+json document.more precisely, the media type no longer applies to the *entire* document; there is a fragment of the document that has a different media type (like the hypothetical schemadotorg+json i was talking about earlier)

honestly the hardest part of getting started is constantly being interrupted just before you reach activation energy

@eblu i think the hard part is getting everyone on roughly the same page with identity and how to make use of it. you could generate a keypair and have your browser sign http messages, or you could wait until fedcm is ready and offload that to an explicit “identity provider” service.for the publishing apis, it’s mostly a matter of which ones you support. a micropub endpoint, an activitypub outbox, etc. — you might need to use a strategy pattern to make this pluggable.

@natalie yeah i don’t fully agree with all their decisions but i understand why they made themvirtual host support would probably be quite feasible to retrofit onto existing fedi codebases but i doubt it’ll get done anytime soon

oh also re: onboarding, the analogous thing would be asking people where on planet earth they would like to live. first you have to pick a country (server software) then a city/town (specific instance). the answer isn't "funnel everyone into one place". that's like saying everyone should just live in one city, or everyone should start in the same city. you're trying to get people to move from sf to berlin, but what if they don't like berlin? what if they don't like germany either?

also really annoying when apps force you to update for no reason other than “this version is old :(“ and then the updated version doesn’t work because they upped the minimum os requirement also for no reason. it was working fine before the time bomb went off