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> I'd love to see a revision that deprecates and simplifies a whole lot of things. The hidden complexities in AP have led to several efforts. In the past there

by rapnie 2y ago

> I'd love to see a revision that deprecates and simplifies a whole lot of things. The hidden complexities in AP have led to several efforts. In the past there has been LitePub [0]. A recent project is Versia [1]. And who knows there may be a FeatherPub [2] one day. If anyone knows of other attempts I'd like to hear. [0] https://litepub.social/ https://litepub.social/ [1] https://versia.pub/ https://versia.pub/ [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/13LuB6Z-C_drCLCEuCtNApX98zPG7XlTxGnwHQWN2Cf0/edit#heading=h.8jvvzqb85ofp https://docs.google.com/document/d/13LuB6Z-C_drCLCEuCtNApX98...

vidarh 2y ago
Thanks. I remember looking at Litepub. Not aware of the other two. The FeatherPub document feels like by far the most useful. But I also think just going through the spec with a red marker would be a useful exercise and maybe I will one day. In the sense that there are a whole lot of features nobody does anything useful with. E.g. "@context" in theory provides a whole lot of ways to type the rest of the data. I'd be willing to bet that you'd break a whole lot of software if you served up a "@context" for an actor that mapped common field-names in use by Mastodon to a different namespace and mapped the Mastodon features to different names... In theory it's great. In practice, I suspect we have XML namespaces and people stupidly hardcoding prefixes all over again...
apitman 2y ago
Ah, FeatherPub is in a google doc. That explains why I was having trouble googling it last night. Also, there's a conversation happening about Versia today: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113105954469059880 https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113105954469059880
- rapnie 2y ago
  Yes, there's a related google doc delving into the data model: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13mtl9gFmcuL-0MS-Boaeh3i6WyzXOUcRsR8pspkRvWY/edit#heading=h.usrs9hpt8mat https://docs.google.com/document/d/13mtl9gFmcuL-0MS-Boaeh3i6...

by rapnie 2y ago

vidarh 2y ago

Thanks. I remember looking at Litepub. Not aware of the other two. The FeatherPub document feels like by far the most useful. But I also think just going through the spec with a red marker would be a useful exercise and maybe I will one day. In the sense that there are a whole lot of features nobody does anything useful with. E.g. "@context" in theory provides a whole lot of ways to type the rest of the data. I'd be willing to bet that you'd break a whole lot of software if you served up a "@context" for an actor that mapped common field-names in use by Mastodon to a different namespace and mapped the Mastodon features to different names... In theory it's great. In practice, I suspect we have XML namespaces and people stupidly hardcoding prefixes all over again...

apitman 2y ago

Ah, FeatherPub is in a google doc. That explains why I was having trouble googling it last night. Also, there's a conversation happening about Versia today: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113105954469059880 https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113105954469059880

rapnie 2y ago
Yes, there's a related google doc delving into the data model: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13mtl9gFmcuL-0MS-Boaeh3i6WyzXOUcRsR8pspkRvWY/edit#heading=h.usrs9hpt8mat https://docs.google.com/document/d/13mtl9gFmcuL-0MS-Boaeh3i6...