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Cake day: 2023年9月28日

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  • I think the difference lies in two things:

    • You can share an article from a user of a different instance. In this case, your instance will have to look up the rel=“author” tag and check whether the URL is a fediverse instance. I’m not sure whether this is scalable as compared to a tag that directly indicates that the author is on the fediverse. Imagining a scenario where there are 100, 1000, 10,000, or 100,000 instances on different versions.

    • The tag is to promote that the author is on the fediverse. If the rel=“author” tag points to twitter for example, maybe Eugen Rochko + team didn’t want a post on the fediverse to link to twitter.

    These are my thoughts and idk if they’re valid. But I think just reusing the rel=“author” isn’t the most elegant solution.

    I know that mastodon already uses rel=“me” for link verification (I use it on mu website + my mastodon account), but that’s a different purpose - that’s more for verification. There’s still no way of guaranteeing that the rel=“author” tag points to a fediverse account. You’re putting the onus on the mastodon instance.





  • Ah, maybe the whole context wasn’t added here, but I tried to download an XPI file for a different program that uses Firefox under the hood (called Zotero). I wanted to download the file to install it manually for the other program.

    Firefox naturally thought that the XPI file was meant for itself and tried to install it. The XPI file was never intended for Firefox.

    Edited to add: probably a pretty obscure thing that I noticed, but it’s still bizarre.