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@north @liaizon @Edent Check https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7564

@Profpatsch @Edent I see this is now merged, has it now been tested against how these new unicode actors will federate across to mastodon and other platforms that don't allow unicode usernames? cc @north

@liaizon @Edent @north It completely fails with mastodon unfortunately, we hope we can create some pressure for then to implement sane internationalization of usernames :)

@liaizon @Edent @north But yeah, it’s exceptionally silly to be a project with an aspiration for international communities, and then not allow people to sign up in their native e.g. Amharic or Han scripts

@Mumonkan @gancio @Edent @fabio The location attribute is part of ActivityStreams itself.

@Mumonkan@mastodon.online thanks for the reference to places.pub! It already exposes OSM places as AP objects in JS, so perhaps I won’t have to reinvent too many parts of the wheel.

I had also read back then the article from @Edent@mastodon.social - and since it was published around the same time that I had started working on GPSTracker it was the initial spark for the idea of a “federated Foursquare”. But I’m not sure if he’s done any progress on that after that article (or at least I couldn’t find any repo with an MVP).

His approach is also a good one, he proposes using the (also nearly unused) location attribute on an AP object - and perhaps using both that and h-adr on the URL may make it compatible both with Indieweb and ActivityPub.

The elephant in the room then would just be support for location attributes on Mastodon I guess.

@fabio @Mumonkan

I have the code at https://github.com/edent/location-activitypub-symfony

And you can follow @edent_location

The AP object has:

```json
"location": {
"name": "École maternelle Charles Perrault",
"type": "Place",
"longitude": "2.3002506",
"latitude": "48.9993291"
}
```

I think that's the same way PixelFed does it.

See also https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29002

@Edent ivory on iOS - account name no clicky ☹️

@Edent on mastodon android client it's not a link and does not show up in search. But I do see other profiles with the same characters in the search results so I'm not sure the profile is indexed at all

@Edent Can’t click on, can’t find with search, so probably can’t follow, but only voted “cannot click on” because I can’t verify whether following is(n’t) possible.

@hongminhee @COSCUP
If there's any kind of travel bursary, I'd be delighted to speak.

@hongminhee @COSCUP woooooooooooo! Let me know if @swf can help in any way

@evan@cosocial.ca @swf@socialwebfoundation.org That means a lot, thank you! I’d love to take you up on that—will send you a DM with some specifics shortly.

@julian @Edent dansup? No, it is not his site.

@technical-discussion @julian @Edent @silverpill I think it is @melvincarvalho

@django @technical-discussion @julian @Edent @silverpill yes socialdocs is something i help look after. Anything needed?

A question about #ActivityPub account migration.

Is it possible to use it to combine multiple accounts into one?

That is, can I `movedTo` all my old accounts to one new account, and set *several* `alsoKnownAs` on my new account's actor?

@Edent yes

@Edent It should work. But of course, there is a possibility of some popular implementation not being able to handle it.

@Edent embrace the diversity. 😜

@Edent FEP-7628 is the only accurate spec. Move activity should be delivered to followers and have an ID (just like every other activity).

SWICG document is incomplete. SocialDocs website appears to be AI-generated.

@Edent - fun - just knowing this exists has me thinking of where to try it.