Draft Guidance for Long-form Text
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One of the Social Web Foundation’s programs for this year is to work on making long-form text more useful and available on the Social Web. By this, we mean multi-paragraph texts of “web page” length, like a blog post, a magazine article, a newsletter, a forum post, or a wiki page. This length of text can usually fit comfortably into a single ActivityPub object — let’s say tens or maybe low hundreds of kilobytes of content. Longer texts like books are probably too big for this use.
There are a lot of producers of long-form text on the Web, and many have enabled ActivityPub for their software. There is some discussion of longer texts in the Activity Vocabulary — the definition of most of the data types used in ActivityPub — but it’s not all in one place, and there’s not practical guidance on restrictions.
To help publishers and consumers of long-form text objects, I pulled together the relevant properties and types into a Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP), which is a community-led standardization process. The document, FEP-b2b8: Long-form Text, is currently available as a draft for review.
If you’re a publisher of long-form text, or you are developing user interfaces that may encounter this kind of data, please take some time to review. This is still a draft-level document, but I’d love to see it shaped and improved by incorporating the experience and knowledge of many practitioners and implementers.
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@evanprodromou How can I vote for *not doing that*? I don't want my easily digestable conversations interrupted by what should be an RSS feed, which I want to read later.
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Maybe you could talk to the developers of your ActivityPub server or your client application to make sure the UI that you are using is configurable to meet your particular needs?
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Matthias Pfefferlereplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evanprodromou oh nice and thanks for specifying it in a fep @evan
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Matthias Pfefferle last edited by
@pfefferle @evanprodromou awesome, looking forward to your comments.
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Matthias Pfefferlereplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan @evanprodromou I think #WordPress is already pretty close to what you specified... I like the featured-image idea https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/982/files
Maybe we could/should be more specific how to deduplicate `images` and `attachments`!?!
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Great work!
can this be added to socialhub for discussion?
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@django @evanprodromou I prefer to track issues on Codeberg; see here: https://codeberg.org/evanp/fep/issues
