Notices by Pelle Wessman (voxpelli@mastodon.social), page 2

@Gargron How come you didn’t leverage the rel-author system that eg. Google+ had in place? See https://mastodon.social/@voxpelli/112718603677990069

Remember @servo?

That other new open source browser engine, the one with which Rust was co-created at Mozilla

It’s an independent project nowadays and is also fundraising
https://floss.social/@servo/112694266927419210

@luis_in_brief Amazon does a surprisingly large amount of print on demand

@luis_in_brief I guess licensing is number one + Kindle would want an e-book and not something like a PDF, right?

@tchambers rel-me is for my own personal profiles though, if syndicated to a third party then rel-canonical is more appropriate?

@tchambers @dave @adam Is there a way in ActivityPub where content from multiple different sources can be marked as being one and the same?

Like what rel-canonical does on a web page?

@pfefferle @evan @snarfed.org Made a note for when I get around to give it some love: https://github.com/voxpelli/webpage-webmentions/issues/202

@pfefferle @evan @snarfed.org Anywhere I can read about how to use it on eg my Webmention endpoint?

@pfefferle @jerome @torspedia @viticci @evan It’s a bit of a catch 22 I think, if there are no services to plug into it then why build support for it? And why build support for it if you can’t plug it in?

I would be happy to plug it into my Webmention endpoint, maybe @snarfed.org would be happy to plug it into some parts of Bridgy?

(A downside in some OSS-projects, not sure if in Mastodon as well, is that they refuse to add support for such mechanisms unless they are usable out of the box)

@jerome @torspedia @viticci As flawed as eg. email is and can be dealt with in similar ways

Remember talking to eg @evan about this and I did an initial extraction of his old Akismet-style filter for activity spam: https://github.com/voxpelli/activityspam-filter

(@pfefferle: Do you know if Automattic has any plans on making Akismet usable with Mastodon?)

Ran into an offended tourist today – offended that the coffee shop didn’t accept his lump of money

The cash free society here in Sweden is a shock to many foreigners

It’s rare to find a place that accepts cash here nowadays

@evan @joshbetz It does have connection pooling: https://undici.nodejs.org/#/docs/api/Pool

@evan You are probably better off using undici directly rather than going through the built in copy of it

And to use its non-fetch variant

You know you have been in the decentralized/federated social web movement a long time when the tags for it in your feed reader and bookmarks organizer is “diso” and “openstack” instead of “fediverse” or “IndieWeb”

@tchambers Not sure how relevant an activity oriented protocol like #ActivityPub would be for e-commerce sites.

Real time broadcasting through #WebSub + semantic markup like #hProduct / #relPayment = distributed storefront, then ActivityPub to share your purchases?

I also think schema.org already has semantics for this that eg Google digest for its e-commerce search?

@tchambers Federated store front would be doable, federated payment would be harder (though possibly doable as well)

There has been some work on #hProduct in the #indieweb / #microformat space, which may be reusable: http://microformats.org/wiki/h-product

And also #relPayment: https://indieweb.org/payment

@tchambers Makes me think of this decade old post of mine 😅 https://voxpelli.com/2012/10/why-federate-just-the-social-web/ One new thing that has emerged since then is @Interledger.

But, whenever money gets involved laws gets stricter and money laundry protections makes it less of a tech issue and more of a regulatory issue

Such laws eg shaped much of how Flattr was designed and could operate

@renchap @JoshuaKGoldberg Yeah, this is the closest that I know of as well, but haven’t really seen anyone who have used it

@pfefferle I can imagine 😅 Awesome work on everything!

@maffeis There it’s even hard to know whether you are shopping from Amazon or not as they own so many of the competitors as well