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... also without comments. I appreciate the idea, but without the discussion its basically Twitter since they also hide replies with anonymous requests.
by 38 3y ago
... also without comments. I appreciate the idea, but without the discussion its basically Twitter since they also hide replies with anonymous requests.
- BentonE 3y agoIn principle, if you want the post and comments without JS you can just pull the underlying ActivityPub document (application/activity+json). I made a command-line browser based on this idea: https://github.com/bentonedmondson/servitor https://github.com/bentonedmondson/servitor
- userbinator 3y agoThat's unfortunate. Sites used to not need JS to show static content.
- BentonE 3y agoYep, the web used to be for distributing documents, but now it is becoming/has become more of an application VM [1]. But ActivityPub is a nice format for the document distribution use-case; it is a superset (in terms of features) of semantic HTML [2] and RSS and has higher level semantics (comment sections, profiles, etc) and no server-provided scripting nor styling. [1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC3KVdAlLGOsK6gFoEOD0/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC... [2]: any plain HTML page can be represented as an ActivityPub Article