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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 04:40:13 JST Evan Prodromou

   Is there an Internet Media Type for social microsyntax, the plain-text source format that is used to convert @-mentions, hashtags, and URLs into links in HTML5? I've been unable to find one, and have fallen back to text/plain.

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     Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 05:22:39 JST Tim Bray

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     @evan If someone writes down the rules I can file a registration and do the required IETFing. Rough copy is OK, can pour into an I-D.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 05:52:52 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Christopher Isene

     @cisene no, not FOAF.

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     Christopher Isene (cisene@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 05:52:53 JST Christopher Isene

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     @evan FOAF?

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     Chee Aun 🤔 (cheeaun@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 12:47:09 JST Chee Aun 🤔

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     @evan not sure if it's relevant, there's twitter-text https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 12:47:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Chee Aun 🤔

     @cheeaun very helpful, thanks!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 12:49:24 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • infinite love ⴳ
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     • Taran Rampersad

     @trwnh @knowprose @evan@mastodon.social that's probably true; at-mentions are particularly difficult. We could still standardize them for the fediverse, though.

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     infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 12:49:25 JST infinite love ⴳ

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     @evan i don't think this entirely makes sense because the rules for parsing microsyntax are so highly variable and application-specific. so text/plain is the best you're going to get for this.

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     Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 12:49:25 JST Taran Rampersad

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     • infinite love ⴳ

     @trwnh @evan Perhaps throwing in some autodetection for markup/xml.

     It would be nice if there were a standard, but if there were a standard the walled gardens wouldn't follow it. 😂

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     infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 12:49:25 JST infinite love ⴳ

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     • Taran Rampersad

     @knowprose @evan@cosocial.ca i meant more like, for example, whatever follows the @ sign is entirely arbitrary in content and in mapping. i could "@evan" and it wouldn't be immediately clear what "@" means or what "evan" refers to. the same general function of a "mention" was denoted with a "+" on google+. there is also no clear standard on when to terminate such a "mention". can it include spaces or not? on twitter no, on google+ yes. and so on and so forth.

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     infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 13:07:23 JST infinite love ⴳ

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     @evan well, that's just one example... if you wanted to look at hashtags, then what is there to actually do with them from a parsing standpoint? they don't translate to links. they're just meant to make searching for them easier as a token. auto-linking to a local filter/search is a courtesy that isn't actually crucial to their function. and you still have to consider the usual "which characters are allowed", "how do you delimit them", "which character starts them" -- what about bangtags? etc

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 13:07:23 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • infinite love ⴳ

     @trwnh we *do* turn hashtags into links, though. And at-mentions. And, y'know, URLs.