Evan ProdromouSep 24, 2024

Launch of Social Web Foundation

Leaders of the open social networking movement have formed the Social Web Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to making connections between social platforms with the open standard protocol ActivityPub.

The “social web”, also called the “Fediverse”, is a network of independent social platforms connected with the open standard protocol ActivityPub. Users on any platform can follow their friends, family, influencers, or brands on any other participating […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/

Launch of Social Web Foundation

Leaders of the open social networking movement have formed the Social Web Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to making connections between social platforms with the open standard proto…

Social Web Foundation
Show threadyuki - queen of the snowSep 24, 2024
@evanprodromou i think you got ur content warning wrong. also, fyi, you don't need to add links to users profile when you tag them in a post, adding links is usually pretty annoying because then it opens in a remote instance on most software
Show threadMatthias PfefferleSep 24, 2024
@yukijoou there is no content warning. the post simply uses a summary!
Show threadyuki - queen of the snowSep 25, 2024
@pfefferle well there's clearly a content warning on my instance!
Show threadMatthias Pfefferle
@yukijoou what platform are you on? is it using the old mastodon way: simply use the summary as warning, without checking for the sensitive flag? https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#sensitive
ActivityPub - Mastodon documentation

A decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format and JSON-LD.

Sep 25, 2024 at 5:25amWeb
Show threadMartijn VosSep 25, 2024

@pfefferle @yukijoou

I notice that when I (on Friendica) respond to a Mastodon post with a content warning, I get an <abstract> element, and it certainly doesn't act as a content warning. So there seems to be some inconsistency in implementation.

That said, I'm not getting a content warning from this post.

Show threadMatthias PfefferleSep 25, 2024

@mcv @yukijoou mastodon uses `as:sensitive` to check if the summary is a summary or a content warning. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#sensitive

I really like the idea of the sensitive flag, because to use the summary as a synonym for content-warning harms the spec.

Maybe we have to file some issue!?!

ActivityPub - Mastodon documentation

A decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format and JSON-LD.

Show threadMatthias PfefferleSep 25, 2024

or maybe it is because the WordPress plugin does not send an `as:sensitive: false` yet. we have a PR for that, I will try to release a new version to see if this will fix it. https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/900

can I maybe ping you two, to run a test on your instances @mcv @yukijoou ?

Content warnings! by mattwiebe · Pull Request #900 · Automattic/wordpress-activitypub

We now support content warnings! They are per-post. fix #757 #176 Proposed changes: Adds a "Fediverse" settings section to the post editor that allows entering a content warning. The wa...

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Show threadMartijn VosSep 25, 2024

@pfefferle @yukijoou

Sure. If there's anything I can do to help fix this, I'd love to.

Show threadMartijn VosSep 25, 2024

@pfefferle @yukijoou

A sensitive flag sounds like a great idea, but repurposing a summary as content warning based on a flag sounds like a bad idea to me. If there's no explicit content warning field, I think a spoiler tag is a better fit, because that already functions similarly without the flag.

But I'd prefer an explicit content warning field. There's clearly a need for it, and if it's explicit, you could set your client to always show or hide certain content.

Show threadMatthias PfefferleSep 25, 2024
@mcv @yukijoou sure, overloading a different field is always bad!