Re: Fact-checking and community notes on the Fediverse

> And are you OK with people starting that work now, or do they have to wait until the Initial Report of the task force is done?

We're not blocked on the Initial Report, and the idea is that the workstreams run in parallel. Perhaps we dedicate some time in the next meeting (or at FOSDEM) to discuss this feature.

Quoting from a different email:

> In using Web Annotations, do you think it's better to maintain all the different aspects of the system, like the annotations server and the API endpoint, or just borrow the type and properties from the vocabulary and fit them into the ActivityPub API and federation protocol?


It really depends on how you intend to use Web Annotations. Like, for something like birdwatch, where specific organisations provide annotations on specific content, you'd probably want those organisations to run a server with the Web Annotations protocol support, with some sort of standardised way of querying for annotations about a given object. That's what my annotations-service code is experimenting with: https://github.com/ThisIsMissEm/annotations-service

For a feature like Community Notes, where it's individual actors annotating each other's content, then I guess there'd be a Create(Annotation) activity sent, and perhaps some sort of collection for the actor and Note objects that contains all the annotations received or created?

That's where we are at with Annotations: figuring out what types of flows for annotations we need to figure out.

I'd also be all for splitting https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/4 into two separate issues.

Yours,
Emelia

> On 23 Jan 2025, at 22:19, Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:
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> It would definitely be interesting to re-use existing work on annotations.
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> In using Web Annotations, do you think it's better to maintain all the different aspects of the system, like the annotations server and the API endpoint, or just borrow the type and properties from the vocabulary and fit them into the ActivityPub API and federation protocol?
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> Evan
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Received on Thursday, 23 January 2025 21:35:23 UTC