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

This is a feature form the predecessor OStatus: https://ostatus.github.io/spec/OStatus%201.0%20Draft%202.html#anchor10

> The user's XRD document MAY have an additional link template with Rel equal to http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe to indicate the endpoint to use for initiating a subscription on the user's subscription server. The template should take a single argument, uri, for the account to subscribe to. 

It is also supported by most of the other bigger platforms.

Matthias

> On 29. Apr 2024, at 15:00, Cristiano Longo <cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> wrote:
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> UPDATE
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> from mastodon servers
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> https://<yourmastodonserver>/authorize_interaction?uri=<object_id>
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> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> (Browser extensions and other native tools can solve this better, of course! But those are whole other cans of worms.)
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>>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 4:01 AM Cristiano Longo <cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org <mailto: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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