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@elettrona in which case, I'd wait.

@elettrona It depends on if you want to move your followers between name changes.
The WP ActivityPub settings let you move your followers if you change your (sub) domain.

@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.

@macgirvin
I thought Punycode was only for domain names. Are you saying you also use it for the user part?

@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.

🆕 blog! “Some updates to ActivityBot”

I couple of years ago, I developed ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots. It is a single PHP file which can run an entire ActivityPub server and it is less than 80KB.

It works! You can follow @openbenches to see the latest entries on OpenBenches.org, and @colours for a …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/some-updates-to-activitybot/
⸻
#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php

I was temped to add versioning to #ActivityBot using:

```php
define( "VERSION", hash_file( "xxh32", __FILE__ ) );
```

But I've gone with boring old DateVer instead.

@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.