Re: New project for documenting miscellaneous terms

Great. I'll add `sensitive`.

Evan

On 2024-04-07 8:51 p.m., a wrote:
> toot:indexable was added recently with full-text search in mastodon
>
> i'm of the opinion that we don't necessarily have to adopt the 
> joinmastodon extensions wholesale, but at the very least we should 
> adopt the ones from 2017 in the as: namespace (sensitive, 
> manuallyApprovesFollowers, Hashtag, movedTo)
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 19:42 nightpool <eg1290@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     discoverable and suspended all use the unique joinmastodon
>     namespace as recommend by the extension document, since they were
>     not approved by the Social CG via a consensus process the way that
>     the original 4 extensions were. "indexable" does not appear to be
>     a thing
>
>     On Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 7:14 PM Ryan Barrett <public@ryanb.org> wrote:
>
>         Yes! I had the same idea. Mastodon has a long list, many could
>         be good candidates, notably indexable, discoverable,
>         suspended, as:sensitive, etc.
>         https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#extensions-not-defined-by-activitystreams
>
>         On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 5:13 PM Aaron Gray
>         <aaronngray@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>             We have to deal and include mastodon’s extensions because
>             they have now became an unofficial de facto standard. I
>             have seen them being used in other implementations too.
>
>             I will take some time this over the next two weeks to get
>             up to speed on this so I may be useful.
>
>             Thanks Evan for all your hard work pulling everything
>             together. I should have thanked you before now.
>
>             Regards,
>
>             Aaron
>
>             Aaron Gray - @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org
>
>             Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer
>             Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and Computer
>             Scientist.
>
>
>
>             On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 01:06, Evan Prodromou
>             <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:
>
>                 The extensions policy currently in draft version
>                 explicitly says that new extensions should define a
>                 unique namespace.
>
>                 https://swicg.github.io/extensions-policy/
>
>                 Evan
>
>                 On Apr 7, 2024 19:47, nightpool <eg1290@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                     (That's not the recommended way to do extensions
>                     any more,
>                     but it was popular in the early days of AP.)
>
>                     Is this true? All of the extensions I've seen that
>                     we use for Mastodon explicitly say {@id:
>                     "as:whatever"} in the context document. Which
>                     extensions are you referring to?
>
>                     On Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 6:37 PM Evan Prodromou
>                     <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:
>
>                         Hello! In our meeting on Friday, the CG
>                         decided to create a report
>                         documenting widely-used terms added to the
>                         Activity Streams 2.0
>                         namespace using the "@vocab" feature so far in
>                         the history of the protocol.
>
>                         (If you just drop a property into an AS2
>                         document, because the AS2
>                         context document includes '@vocab: "_:"',
>                         those properties are in the
>                         AS2 namespace. That's not the recommended way
>                         to do extensions any more,
>                         but it was popular in the early days of AP.)
>
>                         The goal of this report is to document popular
>                         terms inserted into the
>                         AS2 namespace, and include them in a separate
>                         context document. Then, we
>                         can use the Extensions Policy to add the terms
>                         into the AS2 context.
>
>                         The secondary goal is to test the SocialCG's
>                         extension policy, currently
>                         in draft status:
>
>                         https://swicg.github.io/extensions-policy/
>
>                         This project would push the bounds of that
>                         extension policy in at least
>                         one way; it doesn't use a well-defined
>                         namespace -- by definition! But
>                         otherwise it should be a good test of the policy.
>
>                         If you have ideas for existing undocumented
>                         AS2 terms seen in the wild
>                         that should be included, please make a note here:
>
>                         https://github.com/swicg/miscellany/issues
>
>                         The current context doc is here:
>
>                         https://purl.archive.org/socialweb/miscellany
>
>                         And the document will be here when it's
>                         written (currently boilerplate
>                         ReSpec):
>
>                         https://swicg.github.io/miscellany/
>
>                         Lastly, I had one person step forward to help
>                         out with this; if you
>                         think you'd be a good co-editor on this
>                         document, let me know.
>
>                         Evan
>
>
>
>
>
>         -- 
>         https://snarfed.org/
>

Received on Monday, 8 April 2024 14:00:44 UTC