Sorting out bearcaps misunderstandings

[kaniini]

@criztovyl

Because I am not that deeply involved in the Fediverse to think of an example where you could use it in the fediverse then instead, could you maybe provide one? Just out of curiosity.

In the fediverse, you would use it as an object reference. For example, a non-public post could have a bearcap ID with a token.

@how

Not exactly @criztovyl: the idea is that the server knows what to do with the token in t .

So a password reset example would be: bearcap:?u=https://example.com&t=123456

This isn’t part of the idea at all, actually – it is just something that an implementation could do if it wanted. All a bearcap is a method for combining a URI with an access token. That’s it.