Notices by bengo (bengo@mastodon.social)

Awesome #ActivityPub presentation from @darius at #dweb Seattle tonight. Great work on the observatory and fuzzer. 👏🏻
Data driven decisions ftw.

⚠️ We’re now entering the “extinguish” part of “Embrace, extend, extinguish”. We’ve had the first proposals in @socialcg to remove requirements of #activitypub that have been in place for 7+ years, and without an explanation how the removal improves anything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

React if you’d like a #ActivityPubSpecAlert when there are proposals to change the requirements of ActivityPub as we’ve begun to see the last couple weeks.

Join https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

@silverpill @peertube Thanks for the heads up! I learned @peertube keeps full URLs including schemes in its db. I think it must have set these to `http://` from before I enabled PEERTUBE_WEBSERVER_HTTPS?

I ran some manual sql queries and I think/hope it's fixed. 😅

```sql
UPDATE "actor"
SET "url" = REPLACE("url", 'http://', 'https://')
WHERE "url" LIKE 'http://%';
```
(and for other columns too)

I set up a @peertube instance! (personal use / experiments)

🥁 🎉 https://bengo.tube 📺

To try it out, I shared this old diving video of a bunch of Galapagos Garden Eeels[1] https://bengo.tube/w/wWccigJ46EWVaAm3aPQtRj

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos_garden_eel

#peertube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banality_of_evil

"Eichmann was actually not a fanatic or a sociopath, but instead an average and mundane person who relied on clichéd defenses rather than thinking for himself, was motivated by professional promotion rather than ideology, and believed in success which he considered the chief standard of "good society". Banality... does not mean that Eichmann's actions were in any way ordinary, but that his actions were motivated by a sort of complacency which was wholly unexceptional.”

#winning

@silverpill @ilja what's a good client i can download to create posts/URIs that conform to FEP-ef61?

@ilja ya! Good rec. I've been following it. Personally I don't love a new custom URI scheme vs just using did:, but on the whole it's a great contribution

"The Challenge of ActivityPub Data Portability"

a new blog post on web 3.0, data portability, integrity, authenticity, and why it's hard on the fediverse.

https://bengo.is/blogging/2024-10-03-the-challenge-of-activitypub-data-portability/

I love #mastodon but had to call it out a bit here to explain how it could be better for the #ActivityPub ecosystem.

boosts and polite feedback appreciated ⁂

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair,
"I, Candidate for Governor" (1935)

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00010168

#IETF #ActivityPub amazing presentation by @rwg Cant wait for the book 📚 !!

@Gargron the fediverse was created primarily for sharing trekking photos. Depending on who you ask 🏔️

https://codingrights.org/docs/Federated_AI_Commons_ecosystem_T20Policybriefing.pdf

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"It was as he suspected: in a rigid hierarchy, nobody questions orders that seem to come from above, and those at the very top are so isolated from the actual work situation that they never see what is going on below. It was the chains of communication, not the means of production, that determined a social process.. Nothing signed “THE MGT.” would ever be challenged."

"Apply W3 Test Methodology to ActivityPub"

https://bengo.is/activitypub/apply-w3-test-methodology/

#ActivityPub #ActivityPubTesting

"Announcing activitypub-testing: a test runner for ActivityPub Actors"

https://socialweb.coop/activitypub-testing/announcement/

#ActivityPub
#ActivityPubTesting

@robin

Let's say you mean something like what Gordon describes here. https://subconscious.substack.com/p/credible-exit

It says it in there: DNS is a pretty good start. Regardless of social protocol, you can get some kind of credible exit by letting end-users bring their own identifier to the social service provider. Mastodon doesn't do that.

But it should be considered best practice to have your ActivityPub Actor ID use a different domain from your inbox provider. https://bengo.is/actor.json

@robin @volkris cool we both want that. ATP isn't needed for those (not saying it can't be shoehorned in).

Using DID URIs with ActivityPub, which is already allowed by the protocol, is what makes it possible. `did:plc` is one very opionated DID method, but imho there's no reason to constrain to it. End-users and implementation operators are in the best position to pick their supported did method, not protocol designers.

Protocol designers can design for the did-method-agnostic DID abstraction.

My view on this is... sure why not? The devil is in the details, but the actual code in @robin 's post is a valid as2 actor as far as I can tell. The 'over ATProto' part seems superfluous. From the perspective of an ActivityPub client, it's 'just' an ActivityPub Server + feature detection. It's not clear why the 'over' is necessary, or why it would be 'ActivityPub over ATProto' and not 'ATProto over ActivityPub'. But maybe just better to avoid the preposition altogether.