#dev 2023-12-20

2023-12-20 UTC
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[jacky] omg.lol is a silo that could support indieauth as a provider so I'd be more inclined to spin this up and then ask them to add support
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[jacky] going to look at https://api.omg.lol/
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[jacky] (I love the styling of this site, few accents and just straight corners)
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[aciccarello] The admin has been in chat before
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[jacky] hmm this API _could_ work
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[jacky] oh?
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[jacky] ah see I don't know how to get a bearer token and I bet it's going to be a PAT token
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[jacky] I don't feel comfortable having people submit one on the web (feels like a no-no)
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gRegor that is a satisfying url
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gRegor api.omg.lol
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gRegor looks like OAuth: https://api.omg.lol/#token-get-oauth-exchange-an-authorization-code-for-an-access-token
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[jacky] hm and I'd need to have a client app with them, that's fine
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gRegor oh, hm, yeah that authorization code exchange requires an api_key in the bearer header
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[jacky] yeah that'd need more clarity
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[jacky] tbh it'd be way easier if they had `indieauth.omg.lol` and wham
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gRegor ind.omg.lol
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aaronpk lol what that's not how OAuth works
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gRegor I thought it looked odd, wasn't sure
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[jacky] a feed aggregator for bluesky https://goodfeeds.co/
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[jacky] going to keep it to github and flickr for now and figure out what's more worthwihle on time to support
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[jacky] don't wanna spin any more spoons
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gRegor Sounds smart
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[tantek] Makes sense Jacky++
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Loqi Jacky has 7 karma in this channel over the last year (42 in all channels)
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[jacky] I do want to consider more options
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[jacky] just to give people them
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[jacky] but e-mail is hanging on as that option
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[jacky] hope getting an API key from Flickr isn't hard
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[jacky] it was _not_ 😈
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gRegor nice!
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gRegor [snarfed], minor, but I'm still seeing BF show an error delivering to 1 instance. Can't tell from the logs which one, don't really see an error message. It did get delivered to the one you manually fixed recently, though.
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[tantek] yeah, Flickr is one of the more turnkey setups for building apps
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[tantek] has* one of the more
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[snarfed] I worry how well the Flickr API is maintained (or not) though. eg I don't see many employees post on https://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/
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[tantek] [snarfed] I think it "just works" especially the auth stuff since it's so old and tested
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[tantek] jacky, I have re-added my Flickr profile rel me to my home page. ready to test 🙂
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[snarfed] not maintained/attended to is still a problem though; issues always come up. eg Bridgy has a years-old incompatibility with Flickr-hosted photos because it doesn't serve Content-Length, and no one on their side has ever replied. https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/944#issuecomment-628045583 , https://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157714359969377/
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Loqi [preview] [snarfed] thanks for filing! specifically, the problem here is publishing to twitter. twitter has a [5MB limit on images](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/media/upload-media/uploading-media/media-best-practices#image-specs), so bridgy checks the source im...
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[jacky] once it's deployed, I'll let y'all know 🙂
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[jacky] trying to make sure this thing doesn't knock someone's site over with too many requests first
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[tantek] bring it
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[snarfed] huh, odd. I got a wm just now with source https://aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/11/your-first-webmention and target https://snarfed.org/2018-07-01_sending-your-first-webmention-from-scratch-%e2%80%a2-aaron-parecki . oddly that target is a like of the source, so I'm not sure how the "reverse" wm happened there
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[snarfed] also oddly, the WordPress Webmention plugin interpreted aaronpk's post as a like of my like (cc GWG)
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Loqi [preview] [Aaron Parecki] Sending your First Webmention from Scratch
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tbbrown same. also received hundreds of webmentions an hour or so ago
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aaronpk from me?
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aaronpk that post sends out webmentions regularly, because of salmention
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aaronpk so whenever it gets a webmention it re-sends all webmentions
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aaronpk but, i thought it was only supposed to send to links in the post, not also responses
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aaronpk maybe i should just turn salmentions off for now, i am not totally sure how this all works now
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tbbrown they were spurious mentions for different urls but the first was for that same first webmention url
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aaronpk well you _should_ be able to handle random webmentions from old posts without any bad side effects for this reason, but i should also double check my sending logic
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tbbrown i doubt it has anything to do with your code. i'm getting the sense that someone may have used the mentions on that page to seed something like a worm
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aaronpk that could be
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[tantek] wormmentions? the plot (of land?) thickens
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gRegor I got a notification wm for that. Think it helped me find a loop bug where it kept trying to reprocess it as a notification webmention.