Mastodon: Receive and parse inbound Webmention

[singpolyma]

This would allow IndieWeb users to reply to Mastodon users, and generally extend the federation to more platforms.

• https://webmention.org
• https://indieweb.org/reply
• https://indieweb.org/repost
• https://indieweb.org/like

[snarfed]

this would be a substantial project, so i definitely understand that it isn't a priority for you all.

if there was a third party service that converted webmentions to/from Salmon slaps, and you just had to add a <link> to your HTML pointing to it, would you consider that instead? something like:

<link rel="webmention" href="https://ostatus.brid.gy/webmention">

I've built a similar service that bridges social networks with webmentions, https://brid.gy/ , which has been running since Jan 2012 and scaled a fair amount. I'd love to build a similar bridge between OStatus (including Mastodon) and webmentions. i could do it without this <link> on your side if i wrap/proxy all Mastodon user addresses and pages on my bridge, but I'd much rather use Mastodon user addresses and pages directly, since that'd be better UX.

this would enable rich federation with indieweb sites, including replies, likes, mentions, etc. my track record with https://brid.gy/ is evidence that i can build and run this bridge reliably long term, but you'd obviously be free to remove the link if i ever take down my bridge.

thanks in advance!

[snarfed]

I'm also looking into a similar bridge between indieweb and ActivityPub. i know you all are gradually adding AP support to Mastodon, so just fyi in case you'd rather bridge AP instead of/in addition to OStatus.

[astrojuanlu]

@snarfed "Mastodon v1.6 is here, and it is the first Mastodon release which fully implements the ActivityPub protocol." https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422

[snarfed]

thanks! I've been working with the new AP support. https://fed.brid.gy can currently send AP to Mastodon, and I'm working on receiving too.

[astrojuanlu]

Awesome! Keep us posted :)

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Ryan Barrett [e-mail]
wrote:

thanks! I've been working with the new AP support. https://fed.brid.gy
can currently send AP to Mastodon, and I'm working on receiving too.

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[nhoizey]

@snarfed wouldn't it be possible to deal with Mastodon as you do for Twitter, in brid.gy?

At least for toots containing links to Wbemention enabled sites, not the other way, through…

[snarfed]

@nhoizey beyond https://fed.brid.gy/ , ie searching all of mastodon for links to a domain? not easily. afaik there's no global mastodon search.

it's definitely possible to piggyback on a web-wide crawl like https://superfeedr.com/ to get notified of links to a domain from _anywhere_, including on mastodon etc. i wrote up the design for that a while back in https://snarfed.org/global-webmention-service , and @aaronpk actually implemented a version of it in https://telegraph.p3k.io/superfeedr !

[aaronpk]

Here's a link to my writeup about it: https://aaronparecki.com/2016/02/20/5/global-webmentions

[nhoizey]

@snarfed could you let people link their own Mastodon account on brid.gy, and look for links in their toots feed, instead of parsing the whole domain?

[nhoizey]

@aaronpk OMG, this is awesome, I "only" use brid.gy and webmention.io for now, but this looks like a great addition!

[snarfed]

@snarfed could you let people link their own Mastodon account on brid.gy, and look for links in their toots feed, instead of parsing the whole domain?

i could! i don't hear much demand for outgoing webmentions from just silo posts, though. the indieweb community generally tries to post primarily on our own web sites, which we send webmentions from, so we don't generally then need to also send webmentions from POSSED silo posts like on mastodon.

people who use mastodon primarily, on the other hand, definitely might like it! that's pretty far from bridgy's existing use cases, though, and i don't really use mastodon myself, so i'm probably the wrong person to build it.

[nhoizey]

I agree there are two different populations that might be interested in each feature.

I thought that's the way brid.gy works for Twitter, but I understand it's not.