Internationalisation of "handles" on the fediverse, fresh from #fediforum
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2026May/0001.html
Internationalisation of "handles" on the fediverse, fresh from #fediforum
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2026May/0001.html
3 Comments
thisismissem@hachyderm.io · -1 pts · 130d
cc @jdlh see also https://www.w3.org/community/reports/socialcg/CG-FINAL-apwf-20240608/#reverse-discovery
thisismissem@hachyderm.io · 1 pts · 130d
@jdlh It does beget the question: how do you standardise to fix a problem in something you don't technically have? Handles are a design construct in the fediverse and not actually a protocol concept.
@thisismissem is a webfinger resource but doesn't appear in Actor objects, and is instead constructed from preferredUsername and the webfinger domain. Handles don't exist in ActivityPub, but almost all ActivityPub software has some concept of them.
thisismissem@hachyderm.io · 1 pts · 130d
@jdlh oh, and it gets even worse with this tidbit of history from @by_caballero
“P.S. Adding to the tech debt/specification backlog,
preferredUsernamewas never in ActivityStreams, it was yolo'd/retconned, and One Does Not Simply yolo new terms into the ontology without the whole W3C normative 3-step.”