Aside to an earlier question should software that use "favourite" as an interaction be using a Like activity and storing the favourited post in the likes collection?
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@thisismissem @polotek @scott My take is "Bookmark" is what I consider favouriting, this is a personal decision to pin something for later. The Masto "favourite" feature is used to express sentiment as a like/upvote/thankyou, but the label says "Favourite". Every time I click that I know I'm not favouriting, I'm sending a positive message to the author without boosting. Am I misremembering or did it used to be a heart? Or maybe I custom CSSed that for a while and it got dropped in an update.
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@jaz nah, twitter went from star to heart.
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Marco Rogersreplied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
@thisismissem @scott I think I was asking more about this. What is the semantic meaning you are going for with "favorite". It sounds like it's more like publishing a list of your favorite things? And that feels semantically distinct from things that you "like"?
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Emelia πΈπ»replied to Marco Rogers last edited by
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Marco Rogersreplied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
@thisismissem @scott I've always felt uncomfortable with overloading the activity names. Early on when trying to understand AP, I assumed that it would be easier to add custom verbs. I assumed that's what people would want to do. But somehow we're trying to shoehorn everything we need into existing verbs? I don't think I fully understand why that's a constraint. (Also acknowledging the social cost of trying to get humans to agree on names)
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Emelia πΈπ»replied to Marco Rogers last edited by
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Scott M. Stolzreplied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited byYou are basically having the same problem Hubzilla developers had when trying to integrate with Mastodon. To make Hubzilla compatible with Mastodon, we had to do a lot of things the Mastodon way. Now ActivityPub is having the same issue, except it is not just Mastodon anymore.
Logically, it would make sense to add new verbs, but the problem is, will the existing platforms understand and use them.
The only way to start using new verbs would be to get some consensus and some major fediverse platforms onboard.
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Emelia πΈπ»replied to Scott M. Stolz last edited by
@scott counterpoint: do the existing platforms need to immediately understand those new activities and object types?
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Marco Rogersreplied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
@thisismissem @scott right. I think we're too quick to move to consensus building as a constraint. Build something cool first. Then start to convince people it's better than whatever they're doing. Consensus follows value in my opinion.
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Erin π½β¨replied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
@thisismissem @scott I mean, points at EmojiReact