new from me: FR#156 - Share Where?
on @Mastodon 's new Share button, the Mastodon API and protocol ownership
@fediversereport Good overview as usual.
One point I would have added is that, while Mastodon announced this Share button a while back, a “pure” ActivityPub-based way to expose share URLs and similar features exists in FEP-3b86 (https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/3b86/) and has also been gaining prominence recently (c.f. the list of implementations).
For example, ActivityPub for WordPress published its v8.0.0 today, which includes new “Like” and “Share” buttons that use this proposal.
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@julian a thats a good addition, thanks!
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@fediversereport @Mastodon it's interesting to mention email protocols like IMAP or SMTP as the example of what should be since neither of those (and indeed POP) started out as a standard either, they lived for a long time as same kind of defacto standards as the Mastodon API but after many versions eventually became actual ones.
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@fediversereport @Mastodon The share button does not use the Mastodon API and has nothing to do with whether 3rd party apps or different platforms choose to implement the Mastodon API or not.
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@Mastodon @fediversereport glad to see an extended critique of the way the Mastodon API has been getting entrenched in the Fediverse to the expense of the ActivityPub API
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This is a really nice read, and I would love to keep up with your stuff, but I don't do newsletters. Any chance you could implement an RSS feed, or did I just not see it?
@ryusei thanks! https://connectedplaces.online/rss i do have an rss feed, but could probably make it clear with a button that i do
Ty. You'd be surprised at how many article sites made for Fedi don't have RSS. It's pretty wild to me.