Gravatar, which has been humming along quietly serving hundreds of billions of avatars into every app you love like Slack, Github, ChatGPT, Atlassian, Coinbase… has a new API which allows people to bring in not just the avatar but more profile data. Check it out. Gravatar continues to be a useful Schelling point for the internet to allow to choose what they want to share and liberate their data from a single platform.
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photomatt@mastodon.social's status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 06:25:08 JST photomatt -
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Matej 🐙 (matej_svancer@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 06:33:26 JST Matej 🐙 Gravatar is an amazing project. Going to try to implement it into Openvibe to have a unified identity for the whole Open Social Web
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Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 16:15:00 JST Darnell Clayton :verified: @photomatt I thought Automattic had abandoned Gravatar. I do have a suggestion though for the #WordPress team: could we have a custom domain for Gravatar‽
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Nick Bohle 🇪🇺 (nickbohle@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 16:37:36 JST Nick Bohle 🇪🇺 @darnell, I suggest you read the linked announcement.
„We’ll soon roll out more customization options on public profile pages, including the option to use any domain, with the end goal of a domain being another option for identity on the web.“
https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/03/profiles-as-a-service/
CC. @photomatt
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Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 16:37:36 JST Darnell Clayton :verified: @NickBohle @photomatt Thanks!
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Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 05:05:37 JST Tim Chambers @photomatt And it is Fediverse enabled for rel=me identity support …
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