#social 2018-08-31

2018-08-31 UTC
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dariusk[m] hi folks. I am here at the behest of nightpool. I have a site working where the aim is to turn any RSS 1.0 or 2.0 feed into an ActivityPub Actor that can publish posts that people can follow, but that is it. you can test it here https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/ although I will probably change the domain soonish so anything you do set up will be wiped out as far as federation goes
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dariusk[m] it's running a super lightweight AP server that I wrote in Node.js/Express (I'll be publishing the source soon once I make sure it's not uh, literally dangerous for people to run)
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nightpool[m] Darius is also going to be a Mozilla 2018 Open Web Fellow working on Making The Decentralized Web Weird so that's really exciting!
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dariusk[m] yeah I will be embedded with the core Dat team for 10 months
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aaronpk can profiles have only one public key?
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aaronpk there is a "keyId" property so I would have thought it would be possible to list multiple, but it appears the "publicKey" property is an object
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nightpool[m] aaronpk: not sure what you mean?
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nightpool[m] it depends on if keyId is a functional property or not
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aaronpk like on my profile there's a key "publicKey" which is an object containing a keyId and public key data
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nightpool[m] I assume that it's not
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aaronpk if it were an array, then I could list multiple keys
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nightpool[m] jsonLd does not distinguish between {} and [{}] in most cases
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aaronpk o.O
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aaronpk I have a feeling most activitypub implementations do though
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nightpool[m] yeah
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nightpool[m] I'm guessing most ap implementations will only support your first key
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saranix it shouldn't be "publicKey": { "keyId" } .. it should be "publicKey": { "id" } .. thus as the special id property is not allowed to be a set, that should answer your ques
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saranix unless I'm mistaken, I'm not looking right at the specs but from memory...
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saranix and realistically, I think anyone having [{},{}] will have their keycheck fail because most impl won't even check for that
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saranix especially the json ones
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saranix and annoyingly, when writing an impl... you then have to also deal with ["uri","uri"] possibility too...
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saranix so more and more, it seems the "you can just treat it as json" is a little bit of a stretch
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saranix but anyway there is an additional issue... if the publickey property does list multiple keys, do I have to check/cache/handle every single one? what a pain
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saranix how do you know which one is the "main one" when composing "to" ?
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saranix I guess that only matters for crypted messages anyway...so out of scope
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aaronpk for sending, it wouldn't matter which you'd use, or you'd use the first
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aaronpk but it would let me run code on multiple machines all sending activities out from my main identity
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aaronpk using different keys
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saranix yeah no doubt it would be useful for a lot of things it's just having so many different legally valis ways to represent things is a bit counterproductive sometimes
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