Re: Portability work tempo

Awesome, looking forward to it!! Thanks Lisa.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM Lisa Dusseault <lisa@dtinit.org> wrote:

> I propose Thursday, March 14⋅8:00 – 9:00am PST  for an initial group
> discussion on those interested in working on portability.
>
> Quick blurb:
> ActivityPub already has many of the pieces required to access enough data
> to move somebody's account to another server - an important problem to
> solve well in a fediverse where defederating entire servers is an important
> protection to many online communities.  What pieces are missing from the
> existing specifications and what parts of the problem are most important to
> solve?  We can work on requirements and solutions in tandem, in order to
> prioritize defining building blocks that are both feasible and useful.
>
> Lisa
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 3:13 PM James <jamesg@jamesg.blog> wrote:
>
>> Yes. cc me when an event page is required and I'll make sure everything
>> is set up!
>>
>> Lisa: could you write a quick blurb that I can add to a W3C event page?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 14:37, Evan Prodromou <
>> evan@prodromou.name> wrote:
>>
>> > Question for our chairs: should task force meetings like this be on our
>> > group calendar, too?
>> >
>>
>> > Also, I cannot believe how much I am looking forward to this.
>> >
>>
>> > 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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