Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…
  • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    15 minutes ago

    While LOLA is great, I’d really love an established handshake mechanism for having two accounts on two bespoke services represent the same user.

    For example, I want to have a pixel fed and mastodon presence that can be authored between the two. However, you currently can’t make two accounts that are effectively linked to each other. I feel like this linking is important for further decentralizing the fediverse (by effectively decentralizing the user itself)

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Are the Lemmy and piefed devs going to be a part of this? We need some representation so its not all addressing micro blogging things

    • julian@activitypub.space
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      2 hours ago

      To my knowledge, one must be an “invited expert” in order to join these discussions.

      However, the working group is only one aspect. The community group has been in existence for a number of years. I am part of that group (although I admit I don’t go to as many meetings as I ought to), and try to represent the threadiverse as best as I can.

  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    One Community Group document that will be moving into the Working Group is LOLA, the live data portability spec that originated in the CG’s Data Portability Task Force. LOLA lets users move from one ActivityPub server to another while retaining all their social connections, their content, and their reactions. It’s a great improvement for data portability on the social web.

    Exciting stuff!