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   John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 01:52:05 JST John Spurlock

   👀 BrowserPub: A browser for debugging #ActivityPub and the ⁂fediverse

   https://browser.pub

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 01:52:04 JST silverpill

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     @js Nice tool. Are you going to open source it?

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 02:20:21 JST silverpill

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     @js Will fix, thanks for reporting

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 02:20:23 JST John Spurlock

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     • silverpill

     @silverpill btw, I noticed that your json ld custom context is returned in a random order, can you fix that? I believe prefixes need to be defined before they are used, but I put a custom workaround in there for now

     can see it by hitting the json tab here and refreshing over and over

     https://browser.pub/@silverpill@mitra.social

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 02:20:24 JST John Spurlock

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     • silverpill

     @silverpill I mean it's basically all client-side

     so, uh, view-source? : )

     Don't make fun of my vanilla browser non-framework JS

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 04:02:58 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @js the :fediverse:

     Fixed that for you.😝

     ⁂ doesn't really show the diversity or interconnectedness of Fedi the way the real logo does. Not to mention, it's less appealing.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 04:11:53 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @js seems like a neat and interesting name that makes me want to learn more about it...🤨

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 04:11:54 JST John Spurlock

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     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @BeAware

     yea same appealing-ness level as the term 'fediverse' itself

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 04:51:16 JST dansup

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     @js Nice work!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 02:35:14 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @js this is AWESOME.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 02:41:22 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • silverpill

     @js @silverpill probably the bigger question is whether you want contributors.

     Also, do you route requests through the b.s server if the remote server uses authorized fetch?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 02:53:54 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @js it is going to sound very fake to say this but this project was at the top of my list for ActivityPub hacks to do. It is so extremely necessary. I am very excited about this work!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 02:55:28 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • silverpill

     @js @silverpill these threads collections are making me mad.

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 02:55:29 JST John Spurlock

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • silverpill

     @evan @silverpill

     1. not sure yet - it's a passion project and still very early days (e.g. it does jsonld validation under the hood but not exposed in the UI yet)

     2. yes (try a federated threads profile or post url, or gotosocial)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 02:56:20 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • bumblefudge

     @by_caballero @js this seems like a really good testing tool.

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     bumblefudge (by_caballero@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 02:56:21 JST bumblefudge

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     @js neat!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:04:12 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @js

     > everything here is powered by ActivityPub, no server-specific APIs

     Please don't waver from this! It's so cool.

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:04:13 JST John Spurlock

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     BrowserPub defaults to a visual representation of the object (if a known type)

     everything here is powered by ActivityPub, no server-specific APIs

     you can also view the underlying ActivityPub object as JSON...

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:04:14 JST John Spurlock

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     The idea here is to make it a bit easier to see how well the various players in the fediverse support the C2S side of the ActivityPub spec.

     You can punch in any ActivityPub discoverable web url or fediverse handle, and BrowserPub will discover and display the underlying AP:

     e.g.

     social profiles: https://browser.pub/https://mastodon.social/@mastodon

     or posts:
     https://browser.pub/https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113005517546136592

     or fediverse handles:
     https://browser.pub/@Gargron@mastodon.social

     or even usernames (defaults to mastodon.social for now):
     https://browser.pub/Gargron

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:05:35 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @js what about objects with type Collection or OrderedCollection that aren't well known?

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:05:36 JST John Spurlock

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     For known collection properties (like outbox, followers, featured, etc), it will preview the collection and support paging via a "next" link:

     https://browser.pub/davew

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:05:37 JST John Spurlock

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     ... or posts:

     https://browser.pub/https%3A%2F%2Fandypiper.co.uk%2F2024%2F08%2F11%2Fsynology-issues%2F

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:05:38 JST John Spurlock

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     It'll work on ActivityPub-enabled wordpress sites:

     https://browser.pub/fediversereport.com

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:05:39 JST John Spurlock

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     ... or a less JSON-ey structured outline

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:28:04 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @js onepage.pub do es. However, we need better specs. I'd like us to set up a taskforce for it at the SocialCG. It's very core!

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 03:28:05 JST John Spurlock

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan hopefully this can help to make sure folks are supporting C2S as much as possible

     I would love to get a standards-based oauth to inbox flow working, do you know of any implementations that support it?

     was going to check out Mastodon's new oauth thing in 4.3, but I'm not sure they have any additional AP endpoints behind the auth wall

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:44:50 JST John Spurlock

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     browser.pub requests the ability to add new follows to your account...

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:44:52 JST John Spurlock

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     Ideally, I'd like to have these follows take effect here in my main account and not have to create a brand new profile on a brand new site.

     This is where OAuth comes in - many existing fediverse servers supported federated login in a standard way

     Just enter your account to start the login flow in browser.pub

     BeAware :fediverse: repeated this.
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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:44:53 JST John Spurlock

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     So as I'm bopping around looking at everyone's #ActivityPub in browser.pub, I wanted to have the ability to follow interesting people while I'm browsing.

     I just pushed a new update that adds a "Follow" button next to every profile in the visual view

     e.g. https://browser.pub/mastodon@mastodon.social

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:44:54 JST John Spurlock

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     • John O'Nolan

     and looks like Ghost got their outbox and posts ActivityPub working

     although they are not in reverse chron like everyone else (@johnonolan, was this intentional?)

     https://browser.pub/index@activitypub.ghost.org

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:44:55 JST John Spurlock

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     looks like someone submitted it to hacker news!

     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41351408

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:44:56 JST John Spurlock

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     • Evan Prodromou

     Polls are not a Mastodon-specific feature, they can be expressed well in standard ActivityPub, which means standards-based apps like BrowserPub can render them

     Here is a recent poll example from @evan

     https://browser.pub/https://cosocial.ca/@evan/113005485605693174

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:44:57 JST John Spurlock

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     so even though Threads doesn't return collection items in the ActivityPub payload yet, it _does_ include the counts - so at least I can display those

     just pushed it live

     https://browser.pub/https://threads.net/ap/users/17841401083120503/

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:44:58 JST John Spurlock

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     • Mike McCue

     and of course Flipboard is supported (cc @mike) nothing special, just the same ActivityPub spec implementation

     https://browser.pub/https%3A%2F%2Fflipboard.social%2Fusers%2Farunshah

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:44:59 JST John Spurlock

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     BrowserPub also tries to render custom emojis in content and profile headers, these are in the ActivityPub payload after all

     even animated ones

     https://browser.pub/https://bolha.one/users/joaonaweb/statuses/112978564080782762

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:45:00 JST John Spurlock

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     • Dave

     Here's a podcast from @dave 's podcastindex bridge

     https://browser.pub/@851643@ap.podcastindex.org

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:45:01 JST John Spurlock

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     Hmm, I'd love to be able to render a more dynamic og:image at some point 🤔

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:45:02 JST John Spurlock

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     • Ryan Barrett

     Bluesky profiles that are bridged can also be rendered

     e.g. @snarfed.org bridged bsky profile

     https://browser.pub/https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:3ljmtyyjqcjee2kpewgsifvb

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:45:03 JST John Spurlock

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     BrowserPub also supports the new fediverse:creator discovery mechanism

     https://browser.pub/https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/2/24190641/apple-vision-pro-headset-future-cheaper

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:45:04 JST John Spurlock

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     While Threads does not support the replies collection yet, they do support the inReplyTo pointer, which BrowserPub renders above

     https://browser.pub/https://www.threads.net/@evanprodromou/post/C-0iXNmvgj7

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:45:05 JST John Spurlock

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     Threads posts and profiles are also available, for users that have checked the magic box

     Here's a post:
     https://browser.pub/https://www.threads.net/@evanprodromou/post/C8qtHZEuA0Q

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:45:06 JST John Spurlock

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     • Manton Reece

     And here's @manton 's profile using micro.blog's AP endpoint

     https://browser.pub/https://manton.org/activitypub/manton

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:45:07 JST John Spurlock

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     Here's a Lemmy group

     https://browser.pub/https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 07:19:10 JST John Spurlock

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     you'll notice that browser.pub not only requests the ability to follow, but _also_ to read, generally

     this gives the logged-in user the ability to explore ActivityPub collections that may not be public, only accessible via auth (if the server supports such collections over ActivityPub C2S)

     in theory, you could imagine building a thing on top of these collections that looks like your personal mastodon timeline, but using spec-standard ActivityPub

     in practice, tho, here is my mastodon inbox 🤦♂️

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 07:19:13 JST John Spurlock

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     • Manton Reece

     misskey and micro.blog from @manton both support client registration for clients like this by simply providing a website url

     it's called "indieauth" (displayed in the login info row, otherwise falls back to mastodon-style app-creation-based registration)

     there is a newer emerging standard for dynamic client registration, but no one supports it yet - I'll add it when one does!

     micro.blog doesn't support C2S follows via the outbox yet, but we can fallback to the micro.blog api here

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 07:19:17 JST John Spurlock

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     now Pleroma is special here, it supports following like this in bog-standard ActivityPub!

     ie just posting a small json payload to the logged-in user's outbox endpoint

     hopefully more ActivityPub servers support this soon, as it should be very similar to what they already do for S2S

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 07:19:20 JST John Spurlock

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     anyway, once you have an active login it will be displayed in the top-right corner, and you can follow profiles with a tap of the "Follow" button

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 07:19:24 JST John Spurlock

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     You'll see that only the newest Mastodon 4.3 (still beta only?) supports this new metadata, but it should be rolling out widely soon.

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 07:19:26 JST John Spurlock

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     ... then stores the login info in the browser

     For OAuth dorks, it'll show the token expiration and granted scope

     Also whether or not the server supports the excellent OAuth server metadata spec, and whether the server supports PKCE (a security improvement that is a newer part of the spec)

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 07:23:44 JST John Spurlock

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     Pleroma, however, is a different story - a better story

     here is my Pleroma account, listing my private inbox collection - essentially my home timeline

     this is not public, but available to ActivityPub C2S clients like browser.pub with a valid auth token

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 07:25:37 JST John Spurlock

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     Under the hood, the personal inbox is represented as an essentially infinite ActivityPub OrderedCollection, with no 'totalItems' count property, and no 'last' pointer

     I can keep iterating down my inbox reverse chron this way in the json...

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 09:22:47 JST John Spurlock

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     • pixelfed

     one more for today: just got @pixelfed oauth working too

     similar to mastodon, you can add an existing pixelfed.social account, and follow any fediverse user directly from browser.pub

     and, similar to mastodon, pixelfed does not seem to support any additional ActivityPub over C2S when authed

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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 09:22:51 JST John Spurlock

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     and of course you can't see my personal Pleroma 'inbox' collection here, since you aren't logged in as me

     as it should be

     if anyone finds any additional endpoints available to read over C2S when authed (on any AP server impl), let me know - I'd be very curious to know what's supported out there

     dansup repeated this.
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     John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 09:22:55 JST John Spurlock

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     ... or by hitting "next" in the visual view

     maybe I should add some sort of automatic revealing of the next item on scroll