Thinking about building “#Fedify Studio” (tentative name)—a web-based #ActivityPub debugging & development toolkit, like a supercharged version of ActivityPub
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Thinking about building “#Fedify Studio” (tentative name)—a web-based #ActivityPub debugging & development toolkit, like a supercharged version of ActivityPub.Academy and
fedify inboxcommand. Imagine having a proper UI for testing activities, inspecting actors, debugging federation issues… Would this be useful for other ActivityPub developers out there?#fedidev #fediverse
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「Fedify Studio」（仮称）というウェブベースのActivityPubデバッグ・開発ツールを作ろうかと考えています。
fedify inboxコマンドやActivityPub.Academyの強化版みたいなもので、アクティビティのテスト、アクターの検査、フェデレーションの問題調査などがちゃんとしたUIでできるイメージです。ActivityPub開発者の皆さんにとって需要ありそうでしょうか？ -
假稱 「Fedify Studio」라는 웹 基盤의 ActivityPub 디버깅 및 開發 道具를 만들어 볼까 생각 中입니다.
fedify inbox커맨드나 ActivityPub.Academy의 強化版 같은 것으로, 액티비티 테스트, 액터 인스펙터, 聯合 이슈 디버거 等을 제대로 된 UI로 提供하는 느낌인데요. ActivityPub 開發者 분들께 需要가 좀 있으려나요? -
@hongminhee for sure. Check browser.pub also if it's compatible with what you're thinking.
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@hongminhee for sure. Check browser.pub also if it's compatible with what you're thinking.
@mariusor@metalhead.club Yeah, I'm aware of browser.pub, and Fedify Studio should have a similar component!
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@hongminhee good!
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I think the wrapping in <p> is just plain good practice because otherwise rendered content could be injected somewhere resulting in invalid HTML.
Not that browsers ever reject bad HTML anyway heh</p>
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>Can you explain what goes on in mitra?
When mediaType is text/markdown, the entire content is wrapped in a <p> tag. This was done for compatibility with PeerTube. I think <p> was needed to create a space between the title (name) and the content, since title is prepended to content in Mitra (also a compatibility hack -- for Mastodon API clients).
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I'd generally discourage RFC7591 in decentralized systems due to the fact that it creates client sprawl (this is currently a problem with Mastodon's client registration mechanism, which is why we created CIMDs) — every client in RFC7591 is a distinct client, with its own client_id and client_secret, which can make client management interfaces difficult to implement (e.g., every time you login on a mobile device or SPA, you'll get a brand new client_id). CIMDs solve this by anchoring client metadata to a URI, and using that URI as the client_id.
If you need to test clients using CIMDs in development, there is cimd-service however, it's currently targeting the AT Protocol ecosystem (so has a few specifics that at present there that would not necessarily make sense of ActivityPub)
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Speaking of handling markdown. I created funfedi.dev Media Types a while ago (and just added it to the navigation). I lost interest when I saw that nobody properly handled the mediaType attribute of a note. Not that I know what I expected.
Can you explain what goes on in mitra? When mediaType is text/markdown. It changes __bold__ to <p>__bold__</p>, otherwise no paragraph tags. I'm pretty sure, I was once told to use __ for bold and * for emphasize. So my markdown should be good.
Full example ... input activity -> mitra api response
Final note: I am not sure what I would want a proper data format to do. I find the solution of W3C ActivityPub (not W3C ActivityStreams) proposes of putting HTML in content and adding source with the original, from which the HTML was generated ok. Of course, this leaves the existence of the summary and name field superfluous.
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@reiver@mastodon.social add in NodeBB as well. Markdown first, and probably HTML too, although it will probably be sanitized to death on the way out.
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@mariusor that's too bad. All I have left is mussels, French fries, large-scale bureaucracy, and peeing statues.
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@reiver #WriteFreely uses Markdown by default too, but of course sends out HTML to the fediverse
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@reiver Markdown or its subset is supported by almost every platform except Mastodon.
But PeerTube is the only software I know that puts markdown in content instead of HTML.
