Mastodawn

Speaking of Stories, they are quite unique in the fediverse.

We've federated Stories in @pixelfed for several years using bearcaps that expire after 15 minutes.

Meaning that only Pixelfed servers are able to handle and fetch the activity, and we also rotate the media urls after 30 mins.

We federate Stories using an object (with a Story type) like:

```
bear:?t=Tg8cKH1DGwBoZVQEuPaWFyMdcKHmUZd6Ow0DjCxkS80UKQ7hiHMpi6CWgxOoxJhk&u=https://pixelfed.social/stories/dansup/1
```

Interesting.

I wasn't aware of the bear-URI scheme?

I assume "bear" is short for "bearer token".)

I found something when I searched for "bearcaps":

A URI scheme combining URLs with a Bearer token needed to access them.

@reiver yes that is them, mastodon isn’t using them yet