On 3/20/09 12:33 PM, Bob Wyman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM, bear <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Now to put some friendly pressure on the Laconica >> devs to add a source of Atom over XMPP for their >> streams instead of the Atom over Chat they >> are using now :) > Yeah... Grumble... As I understand it, Laconica is trying to maintain > compatiblity with the now defunct "Atom over Chat" that Twitter *used* > to publish. The reason is that some clients were built to support the > Twitter feed back when it was still being published and those client > authors didn't want to change what they are were doing for a "small" > publisher like Laconica... As Laconica instances proliferate, hopefully, > that attitude will change -- especially since Twitter seems to have left > the world of XMPP at this point. > > In any case, whether or not we've got some legacy cruft in the wild, > folk should understand that the "correct" way to publish microblog > entries over XMPP (especially for "firehose" feeds) is by using the > "Atom over XMPP" specification. See: > http://xmpp.org/internet-drafts/draft-saintandre-atompub-notify-07.html
I've had people poke me that this is too heavy for microblogging, so we might want to document the most stripped-down version of that possible (via examples in the spec) to show that it can be smaller than what's shown now. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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