Tim ChambersSo now that #WordPress supports #ActivtyPub robustly, has anyone toyed with linking #WooPayments or #WooCommerce into a Federated payment or storefront solution? I am growing to hate Amazon's UX and Patreon and KoFi etc seem ripe for disruption.
Pelle Wessman@tchambers Makes me think of this decade old post of mine 😅 https://voxpelli.com/2012/10/why-federate-just-the-social-web/ One new thing that has emerged since then is @Interledger.
But, whenever money gets involved laws gets stricter and money laundry protections makes it less of a tech issue and more of a regulatory issue
Such laws eg shaped much of how Flattr was designed and could operate
@voxpelli Would seem that Automattic has already done the heavy lifting with #woocommerce on legal compliance and would potentially integrate with their #activitypub plugin.
@tchambers Federated store front would be doable, federated payment would be harder (though possibly doable as well)
There has been some work on #hProduct in the #indieweb / #microformat space, which may be reusable: http://microformats.org/wiki/h-product
And also #relPayment: https://indieweb.org/payment
@tchambers Not sure how relevant an activity oriented protocol like #ActivityPub would be for e-commerce sites.
Real time broadcasting through #WebSub + semantic markup like #hProduct / #relPayment = distributed storefront, then ActivityPub to share your purchases?
I also think schema.org already has semantics for this that eg Google digest for its e-commerce search?
@voxpelli I was thinking we could replicate all the social aspects of Amazon (wish lists, recommending purchase, comments and reviews of purchases or potential ones), and many of the ones from Patreon or Lo-Fi, for social fundraising, comments to and from givers etc...