I think the #ActivityPub client-to-server API is extremely important and underrated.
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@steve @mariusor @smallcircles @evan this is a huge thread, but off-cuff comment: C2S will need a "proxy" where you can fetch a remote object **with** identity/authentication
@thisismissem @steve @mariusor @smallcircles @evan
Just checking my memory.. this concept exists already, yes?
https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/proxyUrl_endpoint
Are you just saying that the new API spec should include this? Or am I missing something?
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Well, but a part of the specs can certainly be considered a message bus with channels conceptually.
Channel is the name that AsyncAPI uses, which maps to domain aggregates and actor streams.
But considering things purely event-based is stretching it, and may be better to discern between commands and events.
Btw, wrt fediverse we really live in a multiverse by all the different perspectives people have towards what the network should or should not provide. All having different physics.
Where ActivityPub is gravity, and fediverse is entropy and chaos, and universes have become inaccessible over time, past stations.
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@thisismissem @steve @mariusor @smallcircles @evan
Just checking my memory.. this concept exists already, yes?
https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/proxyUrl_endpoint
Are you just saying that the new API spec should include this? Or am I missing something?
@benpate @thisismissem @steve @mariusor @smallcircles
Yes, proxyUrl already exists. There's a use case here:
https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api/issues/10
The only other way I've seen this use case discussed is with client-side HTTP Signature keys. There's some kind of negotiation between the server and the client, and then the client can make requests to remote servers using HTTP Signature and a key it controls.
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Well, but a part of the specs can certainly be considered a message bus with channels conceptually.
Channel is the name that AsyncAPI uses, which maps to domain aggregates and actor streams.
But considering things purely event-based is stretching it, and may be better to discern between commands and events.
@smallcircles @steve maybe? I guess you could consider the `sharedInbox` to be like that.
I think that activities sent to the API by a client are kind of like commands, but they can also be events that happened on a different system.
If I got an achievement in a game, and that was sent as an activity to the API, it's more like an event notification than a command.
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Btw, wrt fediverse we really live in a multiverse by all the different perspectives people have towards what the network should or should not provide. All having different physics.
Where ActivityPub is gravity, and fediverse is entropy and chaos, and universes have become inaccessible over time, past stations.
@smallcircles @steve I understand that people make their own metaphors for how AP works.
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@mariusor @smallcircles @evan I think you read something other than what I wrote. 😀. I’m describing *user-defined* timelines where the heavy lifting is done in a server. That server would be (or could be) *general purpose* and not specific to an activity domain. I definitely wasn’t suggesting a monolithic, tightly-coupled client/server architecture. I want my timeline definitions to be portable and interoperable.
@steve @mariusor @smallcircles so, a client could send some kind of definition for the timeline ("only Create/Image or Create/Video activities from the inbox where the image is tagged 'caturday'") and then the server sorts data into that timeline? That sounds like a neat feature.
However, I think there might be some definitions that are so common that we could just define them in a spec, like `notifications`.
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@steve @mariusor @smallcircles so, a client could send some kind of definition for the timeline ("only Create/Image or Create/Video activities from the inbox where the image is tagged 'caturday'") and then the server sorts data into that timeline? That sounds like a neat feature.
However, I think there might be some definitions that are so common that we could just define them in a spec, like `notifications`.
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@smallcircles @steve I understand that people make their own metaphors for how AP works.
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@smallcircles @steve maybe? I guess you could consider the `sharedInbox` to be like that.
I think that activities sent to the API by a client are kind of like commands, but they can also be events that happened on a different system.
If I got an achievement in a game, and that was sent as an activity to the API, it's more like an event notification than a command.
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@benpate @thisismissem @steve @mariusor @smallcircles
Yes, proxyUrl already exists. There's a use case here:
https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api/issues/10
The only other way I've seen this use case discussed is with client-side HTTP Signature keys. There's some kind of negotiation between the server and the client, and then the client can make requests to remote servers using HTTP Signature and a key it controls.
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Btw, wrt fediverse we really live in a multiverse by all the different perspectives people have towards what the network should or should not provide. All having different physics.
Where ActivityPub is gravity, and fediverse is entropy and chaos, and universes have become inaccessible over time, past stations.
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@thisismissem @steve @mariusor @smallcircles @evan
Just checking my memory.. this concept exists already, yes?
https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/proxyUrl_endpoint
Are you just saying that the new API spec should include this? Or am I missing something?
-
Well, but a part of the specs can certainly be considered a message bus with channels conceptually.
Channel is the name that AsyncAPI uses, which maps to domain aggregates and actor streams.
But considering things purely event-based is stretching it, and may be better to discern between commands and events.
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@steve @mariusor @smallcircles @evan this is a huge thread, but off-cuff comment: C2S will need a "proxy" where you can fetch a remote object **with** identity/authentication
