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> > How reading of different type of content should be handled,as some posts are just media, some are comments? > It may be helpful if community apps include v

> > How reading of different type of content should be handled,as some posts are just media, some are comments? > It may be helpful if community apps include various metadata in the feeds they provide, so reader apps can distinguish different types of posts (e.g. perhaps include a "in reply to" field for replies). Fun Fact: The Activity Streams JSON-LD Vocabulary, which is used in ActivityPub, started, a long time ago, as a metadata extension for Atom (and RSS) feeds. https://activitystrea.ms/specs/atom/1.0/ https://activitystrea.ms/specs/atom/1.0/ Additional Atom back in 2005 provided a minimal mechanism for copying feed items from one feed into a new feed – the "social feed" in your proposal – by specifying an element which references the original source feed. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4287#section-4.2.11 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4287#section-4.2.11 Over the years people have put a lot of time and thought into distributed social media APIs and related specs and are still doing it. Current efforts like ActivityPub and the Indiewebcamp stuff are a direct descendant of some of these specs. (If I were you, my first thought would be to simply read, what has happened in the last 20 years. At the very least it can never hurt to know, what other people found worth doing.)

jacobobryant 4y ago
Yep, I'd certainly recommend not adding new metadata extensions without first checking for existing ones that would suffice. I'm interested if you have any reading recommendations? Indie Microblogging[1] is on my reading list. My impression so far of existing protocol-based social media efforts is that they're not really going in the same direction I'd like to go myself, but of course you're right that it doesn't hurt to have more background knowledge. [1] https://book.micro.blog/ https://book.micro.blog/
- ttepasse 4y ago
  I would have recommended that book, yes. Both the Indiewebcamp wiki and Wikipedia often have pages on now defunct protocols and services. That is of course not a perfect approach but it gives one entry points.

jacobobryant 4y ago

Yep, I'd certainly recommend not adding new metadata extensions without first checking for existing ones that would suffice. I'm interested if you have any reading recommendations? Indie Microblogging[1] is on my reading list. My impression so far of existing protocol-based social media efforts is that they're not really going in the same direction I'd like to go myself, but of course you're right that it doesn't hurt to have more background knowledge. [1] https://book.micro.blog/ https://book.micro.blog/

ttepasse 4y ago
I would have recommended that book, yes. Both the Indiewebcamp wiki and Wikipedia often have pages on now defunct protocols and services. That is of course not a perfect approach but it gives one entry points.