The minutes from yesterday’s Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force monthly meeting can be found at this Google Docs link
Apologies in advance if I misrepresented anybody or missed any crucial bits of information.
Of note:
Mastodon and its treatment of non-note items
- Darius Kazemi (@[email protected]) reports that Hometown already supports improved conversion of non-note items (like
as:Article) into statuses, and that this serves as a working proof-of-concept towards getting this merged upstream into Mastodon proper. - We discussed briefly the Mastodon PR approval process and how it sometimes drives away contributions
- Darius emphasized the importance of showing real user support to facilitate the merging of pull requests.
Context Collections and FEP Convergence
- Julian proposed consolidating various FEPs (7888, 400e, 171b) to publish a unified recommendation.
- Evan (@[email protected]) objected to the use of the “context” property in FEP 7888, advocating for a new vocabulary instead.
- The discussion included differing views on the utility of the context property and its historical usage.
- Darius utilized his data observatory (TBD) data set to hopefully prove that
contextis not a properly currently seeing any usage.
“Convenings” and Collaboration Initiatives:
- Darius, representing the Applied Social Media Lab, proposed organizing physical meetings to enhance interoperability in the fediverse.
- He will provide a blog post detailing the ActivityPub Data Observatory and related goals.
ActivityPub Trust & Safety Task Force
- A new task force will focus on protocol-level issues within ActivityPub, including proper content warnings and labeling.
- Meetings are tentatively scheduled for the second Tuesday of each month (starting November), with a call for input on scheduling.
@darius @evan @julian side note: Akkoma also emits a “conversation” property containing the same URL, which is JSON-LD mapped to
http://ostatus.org#conversation. This is because Mastodon will pass-through theconversationproperty to replies, but doesn’t know aboutcontext. When Mastodon generates a Conversation tag (e.g. when its absent from the parent post), it stuffs a tag URI liketag:cosocial.ca,2024-10-04:objectId=26829720:objectType=Conversationinto it. This is visible in evan’s earlier postside side note: “conversation” is misdeclared as a “@value” and not “@id” property in Mastodon’s context. Oh well.