Piefed community tags

[julian@activitypub.space]

Hi rimu@piefed.social did Piefed.social update recently to include community tags? I recall this was announced awhile back but it only just started breaking on NodeBB.

  "tag": [
    {
      "background_color": "#99c1f1",
      "blur_images": null,
      "display_name": "Feature request",
      "id": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/tag/198",
      "text_color": "#000000",
      "type": "lemmy:CommunityTag"
    },
    ...
  ]

I should point out that there's nothing wrong with the JSON. NodeBB's naive logic just expected every object in tag to have a name property, which your community tags do not, so things exploded :cold_sweat:

[julian@fietkau.social]

Oh hey @rimu, what's the story behind the color attributes? Does other software besides PieFed use them, is there an FEP?

It's way down on my to do list, but I've still got a brain cell or two dedicated to declarative federated profile accent colors. @hollo has configurable profile colors, but doesn't federate them yet AFAIK.

@julian@activitypub.space

[julian@activitypub.space]

julian@fietkau.social IIRC I think Rimu wrote an FEP for it but it was not submitted through the official FEP processes.

[silverpill@mitra.social]

@rimu It looks like display_name was changed to name in Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5976

[wjs018@piefed.social]

The change to how post flair federate was done with the 1.2 release. We tried to mirror the json structure as it currently stands with the planned lemmy 1.0 release (schema here).

We have some extra fields for indicating the text color and the background color of the post flair as well as whether the flair should apply a blur effect to the post preview (for things like spoiler posts). Lemmy hasn't yet finalized how they will schematize the color properties yet. You can see and contribute to the ongoing discussion here.

We will be updating our schema as theirs comes more into focus to try to keep the interop and transition as smooth as possible. If you want to see an example of an existing community that makes heavy use of post flair, you can look at !fediverse@piefed.social.