it would be nice to have a way to federate users around topics or areas of interest, without having to join a specific server. it would make it easier for people to discover each other based on interests, regardless of the server they join. federated interests...?
", "mediaType":"text/html", "attachment":[], "tag":[ {"type":"Hashtag","name":"#activitypub","href":"https://epiktistes.com/tags/activitypub"}, {"type":"Hashtag","name":"#musing","href":"https://epiktistes.com/tags/musing"} ], "type":"Note", "id":"https://epiktistes.com/objects/OvYiHCZvNPY" } , { "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", {"Hashtag":"as:Hashtag"} ], "published":"2022-11-04T13:04:56.000Z", "attributedTo":"https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins", "inReplyTo":"https://epiktistes.com/objects/OvYiHCZvNPY", "replies":"https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins/statuses/109285677256663716/replies", "to":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"], "cc":["https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins/followers","https://epiktistes.com/actors/toddsundsted"], "content":"@toddsundsted Do you know if there's a way to propagate tags? If not, I wonder if a tag relay would work for that.
", "attachment":[], "tag":[ {"type":"Mention","name":"@toddsundsted@epiktistes.com","href":"https://epiktistes.com/actors/toddsundsted"} ], "url":["https://mastodon.social/@jgaskins/109285677256663716"], "type":"Note", "id":"https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins/statuses/109285677256663716" } , { "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", {"Hashtag":"as:Hashtag"} ], "published":"2022-11-04T16:44:53.396Z", "attributedTo":"https://epiktistes.com/actors/toddsundsted", "inReplyTo":"https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins/statuses/109285677256663716", "to":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public","https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins"], "cc":["https://epiktistes.com/actors/toddsundsted/followers"], "content":"@jgaskins so that you could search for tagged content across multiple sites? or something else? tags are propagated as fields in objects, but i suspect that's not what you're thinking of... (what i'd love is some federated way to follow a tag...)
", "mediaType":"text/html", "attachment":[], "tag":[ {"type":"Mention","name":"@jgaskins@mastodon.social","href":"https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins"} ], "type":"Note", "id":"https://epiktistes.com/objects/EXRLZQ3zdcM" } , { "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", {"Hashtag":"as:Hashtag"} ], "published":"2022-11-04T18:11:59.000Z", "attributedTo":"https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins", "inReplyTo":"https://epiktistes.com/objects/EXRLZQ3zdcM", "replies":"https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins/statuses/109286884625669826/replies", "to":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"], "cc":["https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins/followers","https://epiktistes.com/actors/toddsundsted"], "content":"> some federated way to follow a tag
This is the gist of what I meant. Whatever server you're on could register interest in those tags to servers they federate from on your behalf, so they receive them. But I don't know if AP supports that and what level of support for it there'd be in the various server software.
", "attachment":[], "tag":[ {"type":"Mention","name":"@toddsundsted@epiktistes.com","href":"https://epiktistes.com/actors/toddsundsted"} ], "url":["https://mastodon.social/@jgaskins/109286884625669826"], "type":"Note", "id":"https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins/statuses/109286884625669826" } , { "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", {"Hashtag":"as:Hashtag"} ], "published":"2022-11-04T20:48:50.001Z", "attributedTo":"https://epiktistes.com/actors/toddsundsted", "inReplyTo":"https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins/statuses/109286884625669826", "to":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public","https://mastodon.social/users/jgaskins"], "cc":["https://epiktistes.com/actors/toddsundsted/followers"], "content":"@jgaskins maybe built on top of ActivityPub collections... it's a good idea.
for ktistec, i've considered just adding support for polling/scraping/crawling URLs for content—the first version of the server did exactly that, before i built support for the protocol and inboxes/outboxes. (it's not really in the spirit of things, however...)
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