Notices by Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social), page 9

In *theory* you should be able to follow this test user:

@你好@i18n.viii.fi

But I can't find any Fediverse software which actually supports non-ASCII usernames.

If you are able to see the user, its description, and its avatar - please send me a screenshot 🙂

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Unicode

@evan yup, tried a few ways. Might be that I set up the Glitch wrong though.

If you *don't* use Mastodon - are you able to see and follow this account:

@莎士比亚@unmarred-ten-approach.glitch.me

I already know it doesn't show up in Mastodon. I want to know if other #Fediverse services can interact with it.

Thanks!

Source code is at https://github.com/edent/location-activitypub-symfony

Very much a Minimum Viable Product. Will blog about how it works this weekend.

Hmmm. Converting my #ActivityPub posts to #GeoJSON was pretty straightforward.

Here's what a map of my recent check-in activity looks like:

Yesterday I went out into the real world and used my self-built FourSquare-forFediverse clone for the first time!

You can see the results by following @edent_location

✅ Location metadata attached
✅ Images with alt text
✅ Links to OSM

❌ No parsing of URls or Hashtags
❌ Location accuracy still a bit dodgy
❌ UI very bare-bones

Pretty good result for half-a-dozen PHP files.

Here's my blog post about building a personal #Fediverse server in #PHP.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/a-tiny-incomplete-single-user-write-only-activitypub-server-in-php/

It was surprisingly simple. You can *publish* #ActivityPub with very modest computing resources.

If you can see the geotags on @edent_location please send me a screenshot 🙂

OK, if you'd like to play about with a *very* basic front-end for my Fediverse-location-foursquare-check-in thing, please visit:

https://location.edent.tel/

SUPER bare-bones. Just a proof of concept.

@ryanc 👋
I had fun the first time I went.
The second time I attended remotely due to illness. Was good, but would rather have been there in person.
I can recommend renting a campervan / motorhome if you're not a fan of tents.

🆕 blog! “A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP”

I've written an ActivityPub server which only allows you to post messages to your followers. That's all it does. It won't record favourites or reposts. There's no support for following other accounts or receiving replies. It cannot delete o…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/a-tiny-incomplete-single-user-write-only-activitypub-server-in-php/
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#ActivityPub #fediverse #mastodon #php #Symfony

@silverpill thanks - I think I've fixed that now.

Hmmm. Either I don't understand the #ActivityStreams spec, or Mastodon doesn't.

According to:
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#defaultlangcontext

I *should* be able to specify the language in the `@ context`. Might have to go for the slightly more verbose `contentMap` instead.

I've built an ersatz FourSquare clone for the Fediverse!

For now it is single user instance (me) and runs on a simple server with no database - just a couple of PHP files.

It geolocates my phone's web browser, shows nearby Points of Interest using OpenStreetMap, lets me attach a short message & an image with alt text.

Then it posts it to its Fediverse followers. The post contains geotags which *some* ActivityPub clients can see.

Sample post:
https://location.edent.tel/posts/65b8f590-f308-d472-82c5-92a9f227c641.json

Follow: @edent_location

@mikedev @silverpill
Yeah, it is a "write only" account. It sends messages which seem to be federated out.
I'm logging likes, boosts, and replies, but not doing anything with them yet.
Thanks 🙂

@mikedev @silverpill

I've now got a basic outbox at https://location.edent.tel/outbox
Do please let me know if it is broken in some way. Ta!

@Gargron haha! Fair enough.

I've added a feature request to #Mastodon to display geotags.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29002

#MastoAdmin

Goodness me! The ActivityPub network is chatty.
In the last 6 hours, I've received 371 different messages to my single-user inbox.

Most of which seem to be from servers announcing users have been deleted. They're not users or servers I've seen before.

Is this normal?

#MastoAdmin #MastodonAPI

Image upload works! And those photos percolate through the #fediverse!

I still need to add proper alt text (just a static description for now).

And the UI is 💩

But I'm pretty pleased with how far I've got in a few hours of hacking away.

It is *totally* possible to build a location-based service on top of #OSM and #ActivityPub!

@PlaneSailingGames You are a little out of date.

Gmail - and most other large email providers - use TLS to secure your email in transit.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explained-how-tls-keeps-your-email-secure-88310223169.html?guccounter=1