I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.
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I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.
When is something a "Note"‽
When is something an "Article"‽Personally — I would probably have made the distinction this way.
An "Article" has a title.
A "Note" doesn't have a title.(In ActivityPub / ActivityStreams, a 'title' seems to tend to get represented in the "name" field.)
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I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.
When is something a "Note"‽
When is something an "Article"‽Personally — I would probably have made the distinction this way.
An "Article" has a title.
A "Note" doesn't have a title.(In ActivityPub / ActivityStreams, a 'title' seems to tend to get represented in the "name" field.)
In the old blogging software I created back in the 1990s, I had a handful of posts types
There was a type of rich-text oriented post that had a title. (Article)
And, there way another type of rich-text oriented post that did not have a title. (Note)
(There were also other types of posts, but they aren't relevant here)
These 2 types of posts were rendered / displayed differently
I.e., my 1990s software already had this distinction
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I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.
When is something a "Note"‽
When is something an "Article"‽Personally — I would probably have made the distinction this way.
An "Article" has a title.
A "Note" doesn't have a title.(In ActivityPub / ActivityStreams, a 'title' seems to tend to get represented in the "name" field.)
@reiver@mastodon.social that's a good summary for it.
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I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.
When is something a "Note"‽
When is something an "Article"‽Personally — I would probably have made the distinction this way.
An "Article" has a title.
A "Note" doesn't have a title.(In ActivityPub / ActivityStreams, a 'title' seems to tend to get represented in the "name" field.)
@reiver I like this distinction well enough that I might implement it.
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In the old blogging software I created back in the 1990s, I had a handful of posts types
There was a type of rich-text oriented post that had a title. (Article)
And, there way another type of rich-text oriented post that did not have a title. (Note)
(There were also other types of posts, but they aren't relevant here)
These 2 types of posts were rendered / displayed differently
I.e., my 1990s software already had this distinction
@reiver there's a page on this in the primer:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Activity_Streams/Primer/Article_and_Note
But it's not always clear.
One thing that might distinguish is presentation.
I expect an Article to appear on its own page. References to an Article in a stream or tree layout might just include title and summary, with a link to a UI to show the full text.
But lots of Note objects can fit in a stream or tree presentation.
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@reiver there's a page on this in the primer:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Activity_Streams/Primer/Article_and_Note
But it's not always clear.
One thing that might distinguish is presentation.
I expect an Article to appear on its own page. References to an Article in a stream or tree layout might just include title and summary, with a link to a UI to show the full text.
But lots of Note objects can fit in a stream or tree presentation.
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@reiver I like this distinction well enough that I might implement it.
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@smallcircles that sounds cool!
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@reiver@mastodon.social that's a good summary for it.
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In the old blogging software I created back in the 1990s, I had a handful of posts types
There was a type of rich-text oriented post that had a title. (Article)
And, there way another type of rich-text oriented post that did not have a title. (Note)
(There were also other types of posts, but they aren't relevant here)
These 2 types of posts were rendered / displayed differently
I.e., my 1990s software already had this distinction
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I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.
When is something a "Note"‽
When is something an "Article"‽Personally — I would probably have made the distinction this way.
An "Article" has a title.
A "Note" doesn't have a title.(In ActivityPub / ActivityStreams, a 'title' seems to tend to get represented in the "name" field.)
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So the area where my plans go I call "Residential social networking", geo-fenced but inter-connected social networking circles that cover a city, town, or rural area, and which enable their residents to not only create content on the network, but the dynamic apps and services based on local needs that exist in the area. The intent of a residential social network is to engage people *offline* and in activities that support the local economy. Or rather strengthens the Circles of Sustainability in SX terminology:
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#circles-of-sustainability
And all this should be a relatively low-code affair, directly accessible already for a first-time dev. This requires having a mature open standards based healthy technology foundation and thriving ecosystem.
I am a developer, though with rusty coding skills these days, and I might have started a fedi app design in 2018 or so. But this would not have led to the desired outcome, just throw one more app-centric software in the mix.
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Some implementations skip some of these steps, because they are focused only on processing messages as they arrive. So, I am reluctant to overemphasize the message processing at the expense of the personal datastore functionality.
