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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 02:33:45 JST Evan Prodromou

   In 1998 the W3C introduced the fact that some URIs can be cool ?, gave exactly one property of cool URLs, and has not provided any further instructions on how to be cool in the subsequent 25 years.

   https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 02:36:35 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Cool URIs have inboxes.

     Cool URIs are subscribable.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 04:32:43 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Johannes Ernst

     @J12t these are characteristics of the webfinger or HTTP URIs used as ActivityPub identifiers, and ActivityPub is cool.

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     Johannes Ernst (j12t@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 04:32:44 JST Johannes Ernst

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     @evan Say more about this.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 04:43:10 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Fortunately Wikihow has the topic well covered

     https://www.wikihow.com/Be-Cool

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 04:46:36 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a page about how to be a cool URI

     https://www.wikihow.com/wikiHowTo?search=be+a+cool+uri

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 06:13:55 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     @evan I had cool URIs before I was even told how to make them cool.

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     mlinksva (mlinksva@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 06:29:23 JST mlinksva

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     @evan [Cool URIs don't change] don't change.

     Given how uncool so many URIs have proven to be, I'd want any additional instructions to further the "don't change" mission. Hmm, wonder what those would be, interesting challenge!

     Is there any reason to think a URI having an inbox or being subscribable would be more likely to not change -- or more likey to change?

     I do think a similar doc, perhaps w3.org/Provider/Style/Social would be...cool!

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     DamonHD (damonhd@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Mar-2023 04:10:48 JST DamonHD

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     @evan At your prompting I added a Hacker News link, and it really did prove to be still cool!

     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015624