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This is exactly why the W3 is developing a standard called ActivityPub, so that all of these platforms can communicate amongst each other. It shouldn't matter w
by dublinben 10y ago
This is exactly why the W3 is developing a standard called ActivityPub, so that all of these platforms can communicate amongst each other. It shouldn't matter what platform or node you choose to host your social media profile. They should all be able to communicate with everyone else (like email!).
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoNow that is good news. At the moment, we have a xkcd/927 situation on our hands.
- ftio 10y agoTangent: I just typed `xkcd/927` in Safari and it took me directly to the XKCD page. Is this some kind of Safari easter egg? It doesn't work in Chrome or Firefox. I want this to be true.
- tedmiston 10y agoConfirmed here too. I think you're on to something. It worked with xkcd/<anything> for me.
- kpcyrd 10y agosome browsers add .com automatically, try again with example/1234
- tedmiston 10y agoHmm, you may be correct. The pattern seems to work generally. example/123 --> http://www.example.com/123 http://www.example.com/123 facebook/someusername --> https://www.facebook.com/someusername https://www.facebook.com/someusername I tried on Mobile Safari too but it didn't seem to expand there.
- daveid 10y agoActivityPub is a successor to ActivityStreams/Salmon which Mastodon and GNU social are currently using. At least with these it's not really a xkcd/927 situation.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoDiaspora? Pump.io? Patchwork (the SSB thing)?
- erikb 10y agoWhy do you drop other names? Diaspora is a tool, not a standard. If they are still developing that then they may actually implement to read and share data in the standard as well.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoHowever, they haven't done that yet. So they're competing "standards," even if one isn't standardized.
- clacke2 10y agoAn announced successor is still xkcd/927 until it actually replaces all use of the predecessors. Case in point: pump.io is the successor of OStatus and StatusNet.