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   silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:28:22 JST silverpill

   • Steve Bate

   I'm collecting various ideas on improving ActivityPub developer experience. Currently they are in a FEP format, though that might change: FEP-d85d: ActivityPub for developers.

   The goal of this document is to provide information that is useful for beginners but can't be found in the ActivityPub spec, simplify the protocol while improving interoperability, and address common misconceptions. It was partially inspired by ActivityPub Minimal Core by @steve

   #FediDevs

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 05:17:40 JST silverpill

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     • Mike P
     • Steve Bate

     @FenTiger @steve I'm hesitant to use RFC-2119 keywords because this is meant to be a guide (opinionated), rather than a normative document.

     But I agree, this is very important. Maybe content negotiation deserves its own FEP

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     Mike P (fentiger@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 05:17:41 JST Mike P

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     • Steve Bate

     @silverpill @steve One suggestion: the content negotiation section should, IMHO, be phrased as a "MUST" level requirement, in the light of the attacks on Mastodon that were discovered at around the turn of the year. That is, senders MUST set the correct Content-Type, and receivers MUST reject any message without it set correctly.

     At least, that's how I'm treating them now.

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     Mike P (fentiger@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 14:38:10 JST Mike P

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     • Steve Bate

     @silverpill @steve Fair enough - but in that case I'd suggest linking to a description of the attacks, so that readers can judge the importance for themselves. It's very easy to overlook things like this if nobody's told you that they exist.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 14:38:10 JST silverpill

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     • Mike P
     • Steve Bate

     @FenTiger @steve Done: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/d85d/fep-d85d.md#retrieving-objects (I've also added many new recommendations)