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🆕 blog! “Alpha launch - .well-known/avatar - feedback wanted”

I've gotten sufficiently annoyed with a trivial problem that I'm preparing to write an IETF RFC. Yeah. That's how ticked off I am!

Every site that I sign up for asks me to upload an avatar to represent myself. Whenever I change my photo, I have to log in to a hundred sites and change it…

silverpill

@silverpill@mitra.social replied · 2 days ago

@Edent How is that different from webfinger?

silverpill

@silverpill@mitra.social replied · 2 days ago

@Edent How is that different from webfinger?

Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

@silverpill it is similar. But, as I say in the post, it can just return an image, rather than all the JSON metadata.

Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

The nice thing about blog posts is that they can be living documents.

I'm incorporating all the feeback I get about .well-known/avatar into the above post.

James Smith 💾

@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk replied · 2 days ago

@Edent I like this *a lot*

A cartoon of two large beast things (“alots”) with a person in between looking at one, captioned “I like this alot more”

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