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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 08:20:00 JST Evan Prodromou

   I think if there's one thing I'd say to #ActivityPub developers, it's this: it seems like it's going to be easier to just parse Activity Streams 2.0 data as plain JSON, but it's not. You have to keep track of too many variations. Use a JSON-LD library instead. For JavaScript, try activitystrea.ms:

   https://github.com/jasnell/activitystrea.ms

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     infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 21:51:18 JST infinite love ⴳ

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     @evan i would add that there are several other more actively maintained options, at least: https://json-ld.org/#developers

     in the most basic case, expanding the document should make it unambiguous:

     - all keys are normalized to full identifiers with exactly 1 possible representation instead of infinitely many
     - all values are normalized to JSON
     arrays of JSON objects
     - those JSON objects explicitly say whether they have an id (Reference) or a value (Literal)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 21:51:18 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • infinite love ⴳ
     • 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

     @trwnh "more actively maintained"?

     The code is long-term but it was built by one author of AS2 and maintained by the other. It works well, and I use it in production systems all the time.

     I'm pretty sure @hongminhee has made a similar package, although I'm not sure it's distributed independently.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 03-Apr-2026 00:01:39 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • infinite love ⴳ
     • James M Snell
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     • 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

     @steve @trwnh @hongminhee ha! That was the notice that got me to become a maintainer. But I don't have the admin rights to change it!

     @jasnell can you give admin rights on the activitystrea.ms repo so I can change the message and also push automatically?

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     Steve Bate (steve@social.technoetic.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Apr-2026 00:01:40 JST Steve Bate

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     • infinite love ⴳ
     • 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

     @evan @trwnh @hongminhee I think he was referring to the GitHub project description: "Activity Streams 2.0 for Node.js (this package is not actively maintained..."

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 03-Apr-2026 07:27:45 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • James M Snell
     • Steve Bate
     • 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

     @evan James archived the repo today, assumably in response to this question. I'm going to keep working from my personal fork, and I'll use that to push to npm. I think I can update the info in package.json on the topic, too. A change that's been waiting too long.

     @steve @trwnh @hongminhee @jasnell