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@mariusor I don't remember having such discussion. The SHOULD keyword is defined in RFC-2119:
This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
There are many valid reasons to not include
@context. We also have almost 10 years of implementation experience and by now full implications are very well understood: by ignoring this recommendation we make messages smaller and developer experience better. No downside at all.@silverpill@mitra.social @mariusor@metalhead.club But if you omit
@context, wouldn't it fail to work correctly in some implementations that rely on a JSON-LD processor? Fedify is actually one of those cases. -
@mariusor I don't remember having such discussion. The SHOULD keyword is defined in RFC-2119:
This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
There are many valid reasons to not include
@context. We also have almost 10 years of implementation experience and by now full implications are very well understood: by ignoring this recommendation we make messages smaller and developer experience better. No downside at all.@silverpill regarding size, ActivityPub is such a verbose protocol that the hundred or so of raw bytes you save through omitting context, are most likely negligible through the prism of connection compression. So to me that's not entirely a "valid reason".
And as developer myself, I think that contexts, even in a non valid JSON-LD implementation, offer enough guidance for building a data vocabulary for them to have plenty of value.
Do you propose we replace contexts with Open API specifications, or how do we coordinate what's a valid vocabulary data object in a federated network? And how do you propose that others discover these specs?
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@hongminhee can you point me to the parser you use for fedify?
One of my long term plans for GoActivityPub is to built a code generation tool based on contexts and I would need some prior art to see what's important in parsing JSON-LD and RDF.
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@silverpill regarding size, ActivityPub is such a verbose protocol that the hundred or so of raw bytes you save through omitting context, are most likely negligible through the prism of connection compression. So to me that's not entirely a "valid reason".
And as developer myself, I think that contexts, even in a non valid JSON-LD implementation, offer enough guidance for building a data vocabulary for them to have plenty of value.
Do you propose we replace contexts with Open API specifications, or how do we coordinate what's a valid vocabulary data object in a federated network? And how do you propose that others discover these specs?
@silverpill personally I feel like the various activity/object signing methods that get used in recent FEPs are more egregious from a size point of view, when the in spec behaviour for obtaining canonical versions of a resource is to fetch them from their server, instead of relying on random object signing that introduces so much more friction.
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@silverpill personally I feel like the various activity/object signing methods that get used in recent FEPs are more egregious from a size point of view, when the in spec behaviour for obtaining canonical versions of a resource is to fetch them from their server, instead of relying on random object signing that introduces so much more friction.
@mariusor@metalhead.club I thought the whole point of signing objects or attaching proofs (none of which I do, mind you) are precisely to save the need to make a new request, which comes with its own overhead.
The good thing is fetching from canonical source will never go out of style.
Aside, it seems like I'm only getting Marius's posts, not silverpills. Makes for an interesting one-sided exchange 😛
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@hongminhee can you point me to the parser you use for fedify?
One of my long term plans for GoActivityPub is to built a code generation tool based on contexts and I would need some prior art to see what's important in parsing JSON-LD and RDF.
@mariusor@metalhead.club It's barely documented, but has worked well so far!
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/tree/main/packages/vocab-tools
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@julian I noticed that your inbox endpoint returns 404s (my activities are delivered to personal inbox, not shared).
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reposting so @julian sees this
"I noticed that your inbox endpoint returns 404s (my activities are delivered to personal inbox, not shared)." says @silverpill
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reposting so @julian sees this
"I noticed that your inbox endpoint returns 404s (my activities are delivered to personal inbox, not shared)." says @silverpill
@liaizon@social.wake.st actually, oddly, I did receive @silverpill@mitra.social's response, so it seems to be I can access some replies from Mitra, but not all.
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@liaizon@social.wake.st actually, oddly, I did receive @silverpill@mitra.social's response, so it seems to be I can access some replies from Mitra, but not all.
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@silverpill@mitra.social POSTing that inbox sends a 404?
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@silverpill@mitra.social POSTing that inbox sends a 404?
@julian Yes, POST to personal inbox sends a 404, POST to group inbox sends a 202 (I guess group inbox is how we communicate now).
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@hongminhee How hard would it be for a future version of ActivityPub to simply back out JSON-LD support? Would there be a downside to this?
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@julian Yes, POST to personal inbox sends a 404, POST to group inbox sends a 202 (I guess group inbox is how we communicate now).
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@silverpill@mitra.social POSTing that inbox sends a 404?
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@julian @liaizon https://activitypub.space/uid/1/inbox still returns 404. Perhaps group's inbox is working?
UPD: yes https://activitypub.space/category/5/inbox returns 202
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@evan I think this is one of the problems with Mastodon being the go to for people in the fediverse, and is also why I've been looking things up and trying to work out how the good ol concept Google+ had could work well in the fediverse, and also supporting all the features of ActivityPub instead of using its own thing, and I even had the idea that if I can get a service like that off the ground, I'd be happy for a non-biased nonprofit organisation to take over. A name for it I thought of is Fedi+ and if eventually that was to be ran by something like the Social Web Foundation or something, that could really help the fediverse at large.
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@evan Ah, I was only tagging you as an FYI, but thank you, appreciate it!
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@stefan I asked the question I wanted to ask. I'll boost your poll, though.
