Re: Portability work tempo

Hi Lisa, and Evan,

I am definitely up for it. I am currently looking at both Twitter and
FaceBook download data for their feeds, and intend to analyse, document,
and automate reading (and possibly writing) of them as a
TypeScript library. I am also interested in extending ActivityPub/Streams
to support Post, Comment, and like/dislike base feeds. So would be very
interested.

Aaron

On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 03:03, Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:

> I'd love to come!
>
> I think a standard backup format is important for the case of switching
> software but keeping the same domain and identity. Backup, install new
> software, restore data, and you're up and running again. Hopefully!
>
> The big issue for moving stuff from server A to server B is the ID. It's
> got server A's address baked in. We need to have a way to say "the
> object a example.com/object/foo.json is now at
> example.org/object/bar.json, so update your records accordingly."
>
> Portability of moderation information is very interesting! For a single
> person, exporting their blocked and muted accounts and servers probably
> does the trick. For a whole server, it's a bigger issue, but maybe the
> same format...?
>
> Neat stuff!
>
> Evan
>
> On 2024-02-20 7:24 p.m., Lisa Dusseault wrote:
> >
> > I'd love to get a good tempo or feedback loop going on fediverse
> > portability work.  My early questions are:
> >
> > * who is interested in a standardized activity-pub-compatible export
> > format?   What are the use cases?
> > * To what extent can activity pub itself be used by a destination
> > server to fetch a user’s content from their original server? What
> > information would be missing?  (for one, I think the user’s list of
> > accounts they follow)
> > * What are the requirements or use cases for portability of
> > **moderation** information?
> >
> >  If folks are interested in joining a call I've got a couple busy
> > weeks but then March 14 at 8am PST is looking good so I've blocked it
> > off. We could do something monthly not too close to the general group
> > meetings?  LMK.
> >
> > Lisa
>
>

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Aaron Gray - @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org

Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher,
Information Theorist, and Computer Scientist.