ServerInfo
I'm proposing a new version of a metadata document specification for servers in the #federated #web. This aims to collect the good and avoid the bad of the previous iterations, and to be flexible enough for a large part of the federated web to implement it.
Comments very much welcome, especially from #developers working on the federated web. Without getting enough people onboard there is no point in a new specification.
https://talk.feneas.org/t/serverinfo-specification-for-server-metadata/99
#fediverse #federation #decentralization #activitypub #diaspora #matrix #indiewebServerInfo - specification for server metadata
Requirement To build apps like https://the-federation.info, https://podupti.me, https://www.hello-matrix.net/public_servers.php, https://fediverse.network/ and others, application builders need to somehow get information about servers. History Different platforms have had different ways to provide metadata about themselves. Diaspora initially offered a HTTP response header indicating the version of the software Diaspora and compatible platforms later implemented a statistics.json route which ...talk.feneas.org
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