I've been working all day today improving, fixing, and enhancing the comments system in Incise.
- Comments are now correctly listed for #ActivityPub fetches - Comments are now likable from the web UI as well as through #ActivityPub - Comment replies are now #federated as well - Comments by remote actors (eg. Mastodon users) liked by Incise users are now #federated
@wjmaggos@liberal.city I think that thinking of "anything" being boostable is both weird and expected at the same time. We hold these thoughts in our heads concurrently because it was how the web-at-large (indieweb notwithstanding) worked.
What I mean is...
A news article isn't a discrete resource shared on a common social web — such a construct does not exist outside of the Fediverse.
... but news articles are littered with "share via..." buttons that sort of approximate the experience.
Is social media its own thing or is it an attention layer for the open web? Is it mostly about these separate things we call posts, or should every piece of writing or audio or video be able to be boosted itself?
I think that's the divide between #ATproto and #ActivityPub. #bluesky wants to dominate a world of posts like Gmail dominates email etc. Social running on a protocol but one company decides most people's experience. Or should we give the public full control over what media goes viral?
We're not currently doing anything around spam because it's not really a specification issue. There has been a few projects in this space, but when I've tested them they've left a lot to be desired. I can't remember specific names off top of head now though because it's been at least 6 months since I did that reaearch
Kind of wild #cooklang has its own federation setup now. 😅Sure it uses #rss. No fancy #ActivityPub. Still, fascinating to see something like this. More of the web trying to index itself as primary search engines lose all their meaning to what search means. 🫠https://cooklang.org/blog/13-the-dishwasher-salmon-problem/