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   Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 23:29:02 JST Darius Kazemi

   Excited to announce that I will be at #fediforum today speed demo-ing my latest project: an ActivityPub data observatory!

   This observatory does not collect any user data or metadata. Instead I am looking at the *shape* (aka schema) of data being sent around the fediverse. This will let software devs ask questions like "How is a Mastodon 4.2.0 image post formatted differently from a Misskey 2024.7.0 image post?"

   And we'll get real answers based on data rather than on poor documentation.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 23:29:21 JST Tim Chambers

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     @darius Very cool, Darius!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:22:48 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @darius can you compare to browser.pub?

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     Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:29:13 JST Darius Kazemi

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan yeah. on browserpub I can say "hey help me take a look at these particular messages I know about". This observatory will surface information about stuff floating around the fedi that I don't even know about. For example I am already learning about server software I've never even heard of, and I would not have put that into browser.pub because I wouldn't have known it existed

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:29:13 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @darius Ah, OK, interesting. Where does your network tap plug in?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:36:04 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @darius barf, no

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     Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:36:05 JST Darius Kazemi

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan still figuring it out. Right now I am subscribing to a public relay as that is the most software-neutral source I could think of, but I am looking at other ingestion methods too. Importantly I want to ingest AP only... I'm not going to hit proprietary API endpoints like most scrapers do

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:52:20 JST Tim Chambers

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     @darius Are you tracking #goblin? https://indieweb.social/@goblin@goblin.band

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:59:48 JST Tim Chambers

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     • javi

     @darius Brand new Tumblr like service being built by @javi

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     Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:59:49 JST Darius Kazemi

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     • Tim Chambers

     @tchambers never heard of it!

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     Baessito :Ryyca:☭🇧🇷🇺🇳🇵🇸 (pbaesse@ursal.zone)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:38:25 JST Baessito :Ryyca:☭🇧🇷🇺🇳🇵🇸

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     • Mar Gonçalves

     @darius @mar amazing project!

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     Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:42:40 JST Darius Kazemi

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     I won't be actually LAUNCHING this tool until I've found out how you all would feel about it being opt-out vs opt-in. I will provide a longer blog post for you all to read with details, but in short:

     It would be really helpful for general interop on the fedi if this were opt-out. But if people are generally freaked out by having technical details about software data formats being opt-out... I'll make it opt-in.

     Quick explanation of the data scrubbing in the attached images

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     Baessito :Ryyca:☭🇧🇷🇺🇳🇵🇸 (pbaesse@ursal.zone)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:42:40 JST Baessito :Ryyca:☭🇧🇷🇺🇳🇵🇸

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     @darius I imagine that it will #FreeSoftware and #OpenData so IMHO I can't see why this could not be opt-out.

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     blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 02:35:07 JST blaine

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     @darius nice! The only folks who *I* could imagine insisting on this being opt-in are Oracle's legal team, and they were told in no uncertain terms that this sort of data isn't even *eligible* for opt-out, even in the US of A. 😅

     Evan Prodromou repeated this.
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     Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 02:35:07 JST Darius Kazemi

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     • blaine

     @blaine every morning I ask myself: "Am I going to do something today that Oracle's legal team won't like?" and if the answer is no I have already failed