Re: Suggestions for a "View on fediverse" button in a HTML page

UPDATE

from mastodon servers

https://<yourmastodonserver>/authorize_interaction?uri=<object_id>

works pretty good. I got this with observing mastodon social. But, may 
be it is a feature of OAuht2 or something similar.

CL

On 22/04/24 18:18, Cristiano Longo wrote:
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> On 22/04/24 16:10, Ryan Barrett wrote:
>> Fun! Sounds like a more sophisticated, fediverse-aware version of 
>> rel=syndication <https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-syndication> / 
>> u-syndication <https://indieweb.org/u-syndication> / rel=alternate 
>> links. (Most fediverse servers already support a related UX flow: if 
>> your blog post includes a rel=alternate link to a fediverse post 
>> <https://fed.brid.gy/docs#searchable>, you can search for your blog 
>> post's URL in a fediverse server and it will return the native 
>> fediverse post.)
>>
>> The classic problem, as you mention in #2, is that due to browser 
>> same-origin policy and cookie isolation, afaik there's no way for a 
>> given web page to determine where you're currently logged into a 
>> fediverse account. That also applies to #1, right? If someone's 
>> logged into Mastodon somewhere, and they click this button on your 
>> blog, you still won't know where their Mastodon server is.
> May be acceptable restricting to 1) , thus forcing the user to log in 
> into its server also in the case she is already logged in.
>>
>> This is an age-old UX problem in the fediverse. Fediverse servers 
>> themselves generally all do #2. If you open a post on a server you're 
>> not logged into, and you click the like or reply or post button, it 
>> won't know where to send you. It has to ask you for your server.
>>
>> (Browser extensions and other native tools can solve this better, of 
>> course! But those are whole other cans of worms.)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 4:01 AM Cristiano Longo 
>> <cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all, I developed a small blogging platform which, among blogging
>>     features, publish posts on the fediverse as Notes. I wonder add a
>>     "View
>>     on fediverse" button in the post page. However, the user which press
>>     this button should be able to add coments, like and share the Note
>>     object. Let me enumerate two possible use cases:
>>
>>     1) the user is logged in (via web interface) to her mastodon
>>     account on
>>     some server. In this case the "View on the fadiverse" button open
>>     the
>>     server web page showing the Note object, but with the user already
>>     logged in;
>>
>>     2) the user is not logged in to any activity pub server, but her
>>     holds
>>     an account on some such a server which provides a web interface.
>>     In this
>>     case, the user should be asked for server IRI and her account
>>     credentials. If authentication succeeds, the rest works as in 1).
>>
>>     Sorry for the confused request, any suggesiton is welcome.
>>
>>     CL
>>
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>>
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