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?

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.

The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks for the event.

FOSDEM is an exciting free and open source software event in Brussels, Belgium that brings together thousands of enthusiasts from around the world. The event spans the weekend of February 1-2, 2025 and features discussion tracks (“devrooms”) for over 140 different technology topics.

The Social Web Devroom will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, February 1.

Format

There will be two available talk formats:

• 25 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
• 8 minutes – lightning talks on smaller or newer projects, in groups of 3, followed by 6 minutes of combined questions for the group.

Topics

The Social Web Devroom is open to talks all about the Social Web AKA the Fediverse, including:

• Implementations of the ActivityPub protocol or ActivityPub API
• Clients for ActivityPub-enabled software like Mastodon
• Supporting services for the Fediverse, like search or onboarding
• ActivityPub-related libraries, toolkits, and frameworks
• Tools, bots, platforms, and related topics

Important dates

• Submission open: 1 Nov 2024
• Submission deadline: 1 Dec 2024
• Acceptance notifications: 10 Dec 2024
• Final schedule announcement: 15 Dec 2024
• Devroom: 1 Feb 2025

Submissions

Submit talk proposals to https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp . Select “Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk (8/25) in the submission notes.

Code of Conduct

All attendees and speakers must be familiar with and agree to the FOSDEM Code of Conduct https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/.

Contact

Questions about topics, formats, or the Social Web in general should go to [email protected].