Hey @MDN, with Stack Overflow’s ongoing community implosion, now would be an excellent time to launch MDN Answers so people have a better place to help each other learn.
Edit: Or @nodebb / other ActivityPub-enabled forum/threaded discussion community server software
Apache Answer
A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales. Whether it’s a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Answer.answer.apache.org
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Is NodeBB part of the #FediVerse ?
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in reply to Emelia 👸🏻 • • •@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] yep, we've been working on federation this year.
We're watching the implosion of StackOverflow with interest and would help facilitate a federated alternative if there is interest.
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in reply to wakest ⁂ • • •@[email protected] honestly I'm interested in this purely just to see how badly Mastodon will muck things up if I start sending NodeBB Q&A topics as a
Questionactivity, because Mastodon currently uses it for Polls.But they don't have a monopoly on using it, and I can make the argument that my use case is more in spirit to the protocol 😸
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in reply to julian • • •mastodon doesn't use the Question activity type.. at lesst not in a way that would expect things to break
It supports receiving Question, but it's mostly processed as Note, it'll only create a poll if there's anyOf or oneOf present.
On the sending side, it'll send Question instead of Note if it has a poll attached.
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in reply to julian • • •It seems like they would be pretty easy to distinguish heuristically. A Question that bundles in multiple Answers is a poll. A Question that doesn't, or that links to an Answer, is a Q&A.
Although my preference would be for a, @/context entry that clarifies the semantics
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in reply to Jenniferplusplus • • •@[email protected] theoretically a Q&A site would bundle in answers, so we'd send
anyOforoneOftoo!@[email protected] @[email protected]
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in reply to julian • • •mastodon/app/lib/activitypub/parser/poll_parser.rb at main · mastodon/mastodon
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in reply to Emelia 👸🏻 • • •arguably there's a possibility of a bug there where valid? will return true because items is an array, but options could resolve to an empty array (i.e., no "name" or "content" property on the item because it's a string & not an object
So the answer there would be to valid the values in items (anyOf/allOf) as being objects with a specific shape & type.
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(That's an imp smiling emoji btw, Mastodon strips it out because we send inline images)...
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