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Document recommendations for using persistent urls or purls with activitypub #455

Open evanp opened 3 months ago

evanp commented 3 months ago

A commonly noted problem with using HTTPS identifiers for ActivityPub is that some social network providers don't allow users to bring their own domain. So when the provider stops, offering service, the users object and act identifiers are no longer referenceable.

A solution to this problem that the web community has found is the use of persistent urls, a.k.a. purls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_locator

evanp commented 3 months ago

this could be added to https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/Object_identifiers or its own page in the primer.