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I have spending time thinking of ways you could automatically create ActivityPub / ActivityStreams data from HTML and Markdown
Most people will probably write in plain UTF-8 text, or Markdown, or HTML
How to do you take that and get it onto the Fediverse and Social Web‽
This isn't just a question of how to technically do it — but also a question of user-experience (UX)
I.e., what are "good" ways of doing it‽
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#ActivityPub#ActivityStreams#FediDev#Fediverse#Markdown #retejo#RDFa
It doesn't have to be a blog.
It could be something more like a classic websites or wikis people users to have.
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One use-case is that —
I write something on a Retejo site.
If someone takes the URL to that, and, for example, puts it in the search-box of Mastodon — it will show up as Fediverse content.
I.e., that article I wrote and published on my Retejo site is a first-class object on the Fediverse and social-web.
It can even be boosted, etc.
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What are "good" ways of automatically creating ActivityPub / ActivityStreams data from HTML and Markdown‽
I think the answer depends on who, for example, is writing HTML, and how they are writing it.
For example, is this a typical user? Is this a power-user? Do they know HTML? And if they do know HTML, how well do they know it? Etc?
I will show you what I mean —
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#ActivityPub#ActivityStreams#FediDev#Fediverse#Markdown #retejo#RDFa
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If a typical user is writing in Markdown, and their Markdown file has a level-1 heading right at the beginning, then —
That could go into the ActivityPub "name" field.
And, similar could be done for HTML, too.
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But what about power users —
#ActivityPub#ActivityStreams#FediDev#Fediverse#Markdown #retejo#RDFa
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I think one mistake some software does is — they create a good experience for beginners, but have a poor experience for power-users.
And keep in mind that — some beginners become power-users later on.
I think it is important to design for power-users, too, in addition to beginners.
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#ActivityPub#ActivityStreams#FediDev#Fediverse#Markdown #retejo#RDFa
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So, what would be a good user-experience (UX) for power-users be — in a system that automatically creates ActivityPub / ActivityStreams data from HTML and Markdown‽
One thought I had is that power-users could explicitly mark what data from their HTML gets into the ActivityPub / ActivityStreams data (if they want to).
I'll explain —
#ActivityPub#ActivityStreams#FediDev#Fediverse#Markdown #retejo#RDFa
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Obviously, beginners are NOT going to do this, but — some power-users may want this level of control.
There are different way this could be done, but — one way might be that power-users could use RDFa to explicitly specify what data from the HTML gets into the ActivityPub / ActivityStreams data.
Again, beginners and typical users would NOT do this.
But a power-user might want to.
Here is an example —
#ActivityPub#ActivityStreams#FediDev#Fediverse#Markdown #retejo#RDFa
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