Should Hacker News implement ActivityPub and federate?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@jmeowmeow it's been eternal September for me since the second person joined the Fediverse so yes

[floatybirb@mastodon.social]

@evan "yes but even if they federate I will continue to be suspicious of them"

[silverpill@mitra.social]

@vincent It doesn't work for me. Every time my server attempts to fetch an announced post, hacker.makeup returns 500.

[vincent@r.town]

@silverpill Weird! My test request works... if you tell me enough to reproduce I will fix it

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@alessandro it's an opinion poll not a requisition form

[silverpill@mitra.social]

@vincent

curl -H 'Accept: application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"' https://hacker.makeup/users/lorendb/statuses/47287792000

This returns an HTML document and status 500:

<h2 class="text-danger">An error occurred while processing your request.</h2>

    <p>
        <strong>Request ID:</strong> <code>00-d3d74c2ccd32f9ea714faa9aaa1cec25-5b77500b4a1fa1b9-01</code>
    </p>

[maj@cosocial.ca]

@spacehobo @evan This is the way.

[vincent@r.town]

@silverpill I just shipped some improvements. Let me know if you find other bugs!

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@squinky it's one way though!

[fedicate@break3.social]

@evan@cosocial.ca The more platforms implement ActivityPub, the more people learn about our systems on the Fediverse.

The better these systems get wanting to actually make a better platform for the people to stay instead of locking them in because of the size of there userbase alone.

[james@bne.social]

@evan I’ve always wondered what this means.

My website “federates” - by posting new content automatically to the fediverse from @Podnews . Is that what you mean?

Or is the suggestion that HN removes all its web comment infrastructure and replaces it with comments sourced from ActivityPub?

What would you mean here - and what would you do?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@james @Podnews This is a really interesting question! There's not an easy answer to it, but I have some heuristics that might be useful.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@james @Podnews

I think there may be a few informal "levels" of federation.

1. Publishing - users on your platform have profiles visible to the Fediverse (username@yourplatform.example). Other users on the Fediverse can follow your users remotely. When users on your platform make or do something, notifications and content are sent to their followers.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@james @Podnews

2. Monitoring feedback - users on your platform can see likes, shares, and comments from users on the Fediverse. They can reply to, like, and share comments from users on the Fediverse.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@james @Podnews

3. Reading - users on your platform can follow remote users on other platforms. When those remote users do or make things, your users are notified.