pfrazee
commented
3 years ago Hi Carl!
So among the nodejs community this idea of “mad science” projects grew in reaction to people constantly telling us “you can’t do THAT in JS!” We developed this response which was, “hey it’s about pursuing a spark in my head not building according to other people’s spark. It’s mad science, not normal science!” It’s kind of a shield from external opinion that acknowledges that, yeah, it might be a bad idea in the end but let’s play it out.
This is one of those projects. The goal here is to pursue a novel architecture and see if it results in something better or worse than prior art. Worse? Then we have a useful null result. Better? Great!
That said, if you have a spark to use the ideas in ctzn to interact with APub, do it! In the name of mad science! I think that could be a great idea, it’s just not my spark.
carlbarrdahl
danrobi11
Hi! đź‘‹ Thank you for an interesting project!
Would it be possible to align this with the ActivityPub and ActivityStreams standards? Doing this could potentially make other instance interoperable I believe? https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/
In addition, extending the Objects (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#object) with schemas from schema.org could allow for a wide variety of data to be published. For example: https://schema.org/Event https://schema.org/Offer https://schema.org/BlogPosting (+ lots more)
Here's a repo of schema.org schemas converted to json schemas: https://github.com/charlestati/schema-org-json-schemas
Perhaps this could enable querying on posts in a geolocation? Or for example podcast episodes (https://schema.org/PodcastEpisode).
I guess the idea would be like a twitter feed only with different types of posts to aid in discovery and exploration of new feeds.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this.