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Ask HN: When will HN add ActivityPub?

by jeena on 7/20/23, 4:53 PM with 4 comments

I'd be very practical to be able to use it from within Lemmy or /kbin even if it'd be just read only. Posting comments from it would be even better.

The UI is almost identical already.

  • by vulcan01 on 7/20/23, 5:00 PM

    I think this question would be best answered by dang: hn@ycombinator.com

    (also in the footer, "Contact")

  • by runjake on 7/20/23, 10:05 PM

    Probably never? But there are a number of Hacker News Mastodon bots that people have written, here's one: https://github.com/lumenwrites/mastodon-hnbot

    They could probably be adaptive for other ActivityPub formats pretty easily.

  • by CaptainFever on 7/20/23, 6:09 PM

    Once there is an NNTP<->AP bridge, this would be beneficial to NNTP users as well. I support this.

  • by throwawaymobule on 7/21/23, 9:50 AM

    I'd expect a third party to implement it, and it become semi-official most likely. Like the algolia searchbox on the bottom of the page.

    That gets me thinking, does hn have opengraph tags for link previews?