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Aaron Parecki

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  • nasser https://friend.camp/@nasser   •   Nov 8

    @jleedev yeah I guess I'm curious as to what the "processor" is here. the implementations I've seen have all been just throwing JSON together as you would normally or parsing it normally with hard-coded rules. I haven't seen an implementation where the context gets consulted, but I'm also not well versed in this technology.

    @darius if this is annoying LMK and I will take you off these mentions

    Aaron Parecki
    You're not wrong. Approximately 0% of people care about the LD in JSON-LD other than the creators of LD
    London, England, GBR • 53°F
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    Tue, Nov 8, 2022 10:22pm +00:00
  • Barnaby Walters (waterpigs.co.uk) https://twitter.com/BarnabyWalters   •   Nov 7
    @aaronpk collected some resources for getting mastodon-flavoured AP support running, either with an existing blog (e.g. bridgy fed) or with light-weight software (e.g. http://microblog.pub) https://aaronparecki.com/aaronpk
    Aaron Parecki
    Thank you for the reminder, I just added a link to the WordPress and Drupal plugins to that page
    London, England, GBR • 58°F
    1 like
    Mon, Nov 7, 2022 4:11pm +00:00
  • Arynn Crow https://infosec.exchange/@arynn   •   Nov 7

    @aaronpk thanks! I thought about tagging you since I saw your name on the reviewers, but wasn’t sure if you still kept an eye on it. :)

    If this gains even some lasting traction, people will want more and more changes to smooth the rough edges. Think it would be worth pointing folks to restart the community group once there’s a healthy list?

    Aaron Parecki
    Yeah! I suspect there could be a scenario where the group gets restarted to make updates! I'm actually currently a co-chair of the Social Web community group, but it hasn't been very active lately. It'd be easy to re-start the conversation there for starters! https://www.w3.org/community/SocialCG/
    London, England • 57°F
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    Mon, Nov 7, 2022 1:31pm +00:00
  • Anirvan Chatterjee https://mastodon.social/@anirvan   •   Nov 7

    @aaronpk in the Fitbit app for iOS (and presumably Android):

    • go to your picture in the top right corner
    • scroll way down to App Settings
    • click "Time Zone"

    Aaron Parecki
    weirdly, I just tried the pull-down-refresh sync for a third time and it worked 🤷‍♂️
    London, England • 57°F
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    Mon, Nov 7, 2022 10:55am +00:00
  • Arynn Crow https://infosec.exchange/@arynn   •   Nov 6

    @postmodern @jerry @postmodern @jerry I just gave it a quick glance so there’s likely more beneath the surface, but it looks like the W3C group that maintains ActivityPub has had sporadic activity over the last year. If you have time and ideas, most standards groups are usually pretty excited to get more volunteers.

    Aaron Parecki
    Officially, the W3C working group is shut down now. Unofficially, Mastodon itself has been driving most of the work lately and is the de-facto spec because everyone has to do whatever they build.

    In practice this means you only need to convince Mastodon to make changes and cross your fingers that the few other implementations will follow.
    London, England • 50°F
    9 likes 2 reposts 2 replies
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 10:27pm +00:00
  • Brian Campbell https://twitter.com/__b_c   •   Nov 6
    Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament.
    Aaron Parecki
    i expect to see this in the slide deck in tomorrow’s meeting
    London, England • 50°F
    2 likes 1 reply
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 10:01pm +00:00
  • Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet   •   Nov 6
    Well, fuck.
    The ONE TIME i don’t have a huge margin, “just” 3.5 hours, @delta goes ahead and delays my flight FIVE HOURS AND A HALF.
    Rebooked on United and even if they are on perfect schedule, I’ll be late to my meeting. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1589371940565045248
    Aaron Parecki
    shoulda come to london, direct flight from SEA!
    London, England • 50°F
    2 likes 1 reply
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 9:43pm +00:00
  • William Mason (feat Bear) https://twitter.com/WBMason   •   Nov 6
    Did a thing this weekend... took a snapshot of all the verified users as of friday night (413,159 accounts).

    Proof Of Original Verification:
    http://originallyverified.xyz
    Originally Verified // PYOV
    Aaron Parecki
    So we can give you $8 for a verified checkmark that people will only see if they look it up at your website? I mean I'd rather give you $8 than this bird site but I could also just keep the $8
    London, England • 50°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:52pm +00:00
  • Randall Degges https://twitter.com/rdegges   •   Nov 6
    Can’t even explore /me/groups any longer using the Graph API explorer >.>
    Aaron Parecki
    They're on to you 😉
    London, England • 50°F
    1 like
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:39pm +00:00
  • Jason Lengstorf ⚡️ https://twitter.com/jlengstorf   •   Nov 6
    Yeah, I love the spirit of WebMentions but the implementation is too high a bar for many (most?) site owners. But maybe a man investment in UX / tooling makes more sense than trying something net new.
    Aaron Parecki
    Yeah, frankly I don't think an alternative would end up being significantly simpler anyway once you start accounting for the things that are already established in the current ecosystem. There are tools and services now, and libraries, but we always need more!
    London, England, GBR • 50°F
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    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 7:40pm +00:00
  • Jason Lengstorf ⚡️ https://twitter.com/jlengstorf   •   Nov 5
    I was just noodling on this. I don’t think I’m the right person to build it, but I wonder what an “RSS feed reader + discussion graph” looks like

    - subscribe to RSS
    - “reply” to posts by blogging on your own site with a meta tag
    - readers use the meta tag to thread discussion
    Aaron Parecki
    This is basically what we're doing with Webmentions. It's an old post, but surprisingly relevant all of a sudden: https://aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/11/your-first-webmention
    London, England, GBR • 52°F
    6 likes 1 repost 7 replies
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 5:04pm +00:00
  • Jake Sloan https://twitter.com/jakesloaninak   •   Nov 6
    I wish they would just do away with it. 2x a year and everything gets messed up…
    Aaron Parecki
    We're so close! Almost got rid of it this year, I'm holding out hope that next November will be the last time change.
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    3 likes
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:38pm +00:00
  • eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee   •   Nov 6
    it's interesting but feels far too coarse-grained. maybe masto needs something like public groups of related accounts so you can use those as a foothold instead
    Aaron Parecki
    Absolutely. There's some in-progress work on this, but I haven't been following it too closely. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19059

    Sadly the state of things is that until Mastodon itself implements this, it's pretty much a stalled idea in the larger Fediverse.
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    5 likes
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:36pm +00:00
  • eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee   •   Nov 6
    if mastodon is doing a piss poor job of conveying this then that is not all these people's fault, but the practical impact is that multiple verified twitter users with large audiences are lying about how mastodon works lol
    Aaron Parecki
    I've always said the local timeline model of Mastodon was a bad idea. It's directly led to this idea of having to join a particular instance because of the community, and all the fallout from that around trusting the instance admin and such. Those concerns should be separate.
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    13 likes 3 reposts 2 replies
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:28pm +00:00
  • PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Nov 6
    I realized that looking at your profile, where you have an @ your own server. This ain’t your grandfather’s social network, is it.
    Aaron Parecki
    Yup, forget about picking an instance, bring your own! #OwnYourData
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    2 likes
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:25pm +00:00 #ownyourdata
  • PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Nov 6
    I have no idea what this thing is. Just signed up to park my name.
    Aaron Parecki
    heh, well parking your name doesn't really mean anything because there are instances on domains all over the place and you're certainly not going to register on each one! Tho now that I think about it, you should be able to use your own domain for this: https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    1 like 2 replies
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:13pm +00:00
  • PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Nov 6
    Apparently @aaronpk really wanted to follow… 😉
    Aaron Parecki
    hahaha sorry! Your instance did things sliiiightly different than others, so I was having to test my code in production, which resulted in sending you a lot of these!
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    1 like 4 replies
    Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:09pm +00:00
  • Orie Steele https://twitter.com/OR13b   •   Nov 5
    I reviewed the spec, imo it's a custom JWT format squatting on the branding and work of the W3C... That doesn't mean it's not a great solution to the use case though... It relies on HL7/FHIR for semantics... So it doesn't really need any extensibility model.
    Aaron Parecki
    yeah I guess that's one way to put it.

    Back to the original point though, I would argue that 99.9% of of those examples in the crawl also do not rely on the extensibility model of JSON-LD.
    London, England, GBR • 56°F
    2 likes 88 replies
    Sat, Nov 5, 2022 11:54pm +00:00
  • Orie Steele https://twitter.com/OR13b   •   Nov 5
    You can implement many "token" schemes without using JSON-LD... If we're really just talking about rebranding tokens to credentials to appeal to a broader base, you don't need a standard to do that imo... You need a marketing department :)
    Aaron Parecki
    They took all the good parts of Verifiable Credentials and turned it into the SmartHealth spec! https://spec.smarthealth.cards Notice you never need to bring in any JSON-LD library or deal with namespaces or canonicalization, yet it's completely decentralized!
    London, England, GBR • 56°F
    3 likes 87 replies
    Sat, Nov 5, 2022 11:48pm +00:00
  • ˗ˏˋ Mark Foster ˎˊ˗ https://twitter.com/mfosterio   •   Nov 5
    @aaronpk There is a movement towards decentralization and openness the value is increasing by demand.
    Aaron Parecki
    I mean, you don't have to convince me of decentralization and openness. I'm not even tweeting this on twitter, it's coming from my own website, one of many decentralized nodes on the internet.
    London, England, GBR • 56°F
    2 likes 2 replies
    Sat, Nov 5, 2022 11:45pm +00:00
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

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