Notices by Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)

@lakelady I followed along in the notes!

@julian @ricferrer I meant, taking it to a Task Force. It's a really important question.

@ricferrer @benpate @trwnh @julian @rimu so, maybe we should have a group working on this problem.

@lakelady they aren't and it did not work.

I'm on the airplane home from London to Montreal. We've got the Social Web Community Group meeting in about 36 minutes. I paid for the extra extra extra bandwidth package for Internet access, but I'm still worried about having good reception for a call. I guess we'll see!

@strypey anyone who works on ActivityPub and wants to be part of the Working Group can become an Invited Expert. The chair, @darius , is an invited expert. I was an invited expert when I chaired the first wg. All of the authors of ActivityPub and half the authors of Activity Streams were invited experts.

@strypey @Mastodon we have a task force working on groups at the W3C. You should help!

https://github.com/swicg/groups

@strypey @Mastodon sure. Just post here with [groups] in the subject line.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/

@ryan there's nothing lower than negative infinity

@zbrando beautiful!

@renata @vivllainous you're thinking of the 2024 election I think.

@thisismissem this is a good idea! But make sure people join the CG and sign the CLA before making substantive contributions.

@mpjgregoire this is a great thread. Thank you!

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@wakest there's an RFC for `acct:`

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7565

@wakest That said, I think using the `acct:` URI scheme for Webfinger is pretty great. I've implemented a protocol handler for it here:

https://acct.swf.pub/

Unfortunately, `acct:` isn't one of the protocols allowlisted by HTML5 for linking in HTML pages, so it uses `web+acct` instead. At some point, I'll ask the HTML5 WG to add acct: to the allowlist. It's on my todo list!

@wakest Using a custom URI scheme is also going to give absolutely terrible UI for most users, who won't have an app installed.

@wakest For good or ill, ActivityPub objects are supposed to use HTTPS URIs. It's in the spec: "Publicly facing content SHOULD use HTTPS URIs."

The discovery document shows a few good ways to discover if an HTML page, like a page loaded in a browser, represents an ActivityPub object.

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-html-discovery/

One of the reasons I'm working on ActivityPub API adoption is to make this use case easier. You can see it here:

https://evanp.me/2024/04/22/cross-server-interactions-in-activitypub/

@ricferrer @julian @rimu We already have an URI scheme for ActivityPub objects; it's https: .

@vkc @veronica thanks for adding AP!