Notices by John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social), page 2

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.

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

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

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

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 🤦♂️

Here's a Lemmy group

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

looks like someone submitted it to hacker news!

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

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

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