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It is not quite as bad as the OpenID website. It is supposed to be something that people use to log into websites, but any layperson going to their site would be completely lost.

I see it on Hubzilla.

Speaking of which, I keep forgetting how to create a new topic. Are the handles for that exposed anywhere on NodeBB?

@julian I know, but I was too lazy to start a new topic. :winking_face_with_tongue:

@julian Another thing to consider is that showing handles is a good way to prevent spoofing or identity confusion. That way you can tell the difference between julian@community,nodebb.org and julian@example.com. The fact that the domain is different alerts the user that this is not the same Julian.

@freamon You also have the Hubzilla example, which shows the entire handle below the user's display name.

For example, mine shows up as:

Scott M. Stolz
scott@loves.tech

On NodeBB, the name could be made clickable and go to the person's profile.

@julian For a lot of people, the standard flow is to copy someone's handle, go back to their home base on Mastodon or Hubzilla or whatever, and follow or connect with them. Making the handle visible on the NodeBB UI would help people who use that flow.

It appears that NodeBB is not accepting edits of posts.

@infinite love ⴳ I understand how it is defined. I am just commenting, and laughing, at the fact that the terms ActivityPub uses does not match the common meaning of the words.

Unless I looked up "tag" in ActivityPub, I would have never assumed in a million years that it meant "related to" because everyone else uses the term "tag" to mean "hashtag."

What do we use for hashtags, since tags is used for "related to." LOL

This is so funny. LOL. One misnomer after another. Haha

I needed a laugh.

But seriously, where to hashtags go? LOL

Edit: To be clear, I am laughing at the absurdly of life, and not any particular person. Life doesn't always match your expectations, and sometimes you have to laugh about it.

@infinite love ⴳ

- tags are literally "related to" taxonomical references so this shouldn't be mismatched at all

Exactly. It is not for #hastags like the name implies.

@infinite love ⴳ That is doable. But the naming convention is a bit wonky.

You use context for collections. You use tags for context. You use summary for content warnings.

You don't want to use the term threads to describe threads because you want it to be a collection, which you call a context. So there is no way to specify the top level post without creating a collection.

It would be nice if the names reflected what the field is actually used for.

@infinite love ⴳ The projects and tasks would have its own API or protocol for syncing and sharing. I am not referring to that.

I am talking about when a AS2 Note or AS2 Article is associated with a Task or Project.

Server A might want to notify Server B of that association over ActivityPub, because AS2 Notes and AS2 Articles will be delivered over ActivityPub, not the Project API/protocol.

The user interface could then link to the related project or task.

And there are situations where the context will NOT be a collection.

For example, for a project management system, the context may be a specific task, but multiple threads (conversations) are related to that task. There is no collection to serve, since each thread has their own collection, and may even be on different servers.

This is why I advocate for a thread field that indicates the thread, if it has one. There are other use cases for context.

Amazing work. Congratulations on this milestone!