One thing that has low-key bothered me for a while is that "posts" in ActivityPub are called "notes". Why are they called notes? "I wrote a note today". Uhu...cool...?
I have note taking software (all of them I think) where I take actual notes. There are almost no similarities with "real" note-notes and ActivityPub "notes".
I propose we rename ActivityPub "notes" to "bicycles". Or "bananas". Or, how about: "Posts"?
#Fediverse #ActivityPub
I have note taking software (all of them I think) where I take actual notes. There are almost no similarities with "real" note-notes and ActivityPub "notes".
I propose we rename ActivityPub "notes" to "bicycles". Or "bananas". Or, how about: "Posts"?
#Fediverse #ActivityPub
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@m well it’s not that posts are called notes but that of the types defined by ActivityStreams some interfaces have chosen to mark content that way.
As per the standard a note “Represents a short written work typically less than a single paragraph in length.”
Arguably this that I’m typing here is a document, not a note, regardless of what Mastodon thinks of it.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#object-types
@m Well, the standard leaves you free to define your own object type.
Feel free to transmit whatever you’d like into the system!
@volkris BTW, wouldn't your reply be an article? I don't think that is describing it particularly well either, just going by their definitions.
@volkris Hah. As interesting as your “note” was, it is to me neither note or document. 😆
So my takeaway from that is that we should bribe someone “upstream” to call these things something sensible that normal people can understand. I think one of the large blockers when discussing things and the skill levels for certain topics are of varying level, is terminology confusion and that it rarely make things better. 🤣