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add "Federation" (distributed social network) to profile

A topic by diorama created Feb 17, 2021 Views: 2,359 Replies: 4
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Instead of/In addition to Twitter, add the field "Federation" to insert an optional handler for distributed social network, e.g. @username@domain.tld (handlers are standardized [*EDIT: see note]).
itch.io has an account too: @itchio@mastodon.social. Several protocols and software here. Further info on current nodes here: https://the-federation.info/

Here follows a possible "Setting" interface:


and here a possible user "Profile" page:

[EDIT, technical note]: I read the comment here and thank the author. In short, AFAIU: the username@domain.tld handler (w/o leading @) is standardized per ActivityPub (the most diffuse protocol). Other protocols might use a different special character instead of @. That can be easily parsed. Also relevant for implementation: «The ActivityPub spec doesn’t cover profile discovery [, h]owever [m]ost current implementers have integrated Webfinger 5 for that purpose, since users like to work with handles rather than URLs.» In the same comment, there is a suggestion for acct-to-uri conversion via Webfinger to preserve the handler abroad diverse protocols.

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I'd love to see that, too, but the official Itch.io account was abandoned over two years ago. Guess it didn't work out, so interest from our dev team may be low. Meanwhile you can put any links you want in your bio, if it helps.

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Hey No Time To Play! Thanks for your feedback. :)
Indeed my thread is here to revamp the interest from itch.io dev team. I am glad you (and others) too love my little tiny proposal. All in all, and apart from historical reasons, the choice to display only Twitter does not resonate with me precisely because any link can be put in the bio.
Best,

I would not call it “Federation”, as that is extremely broad. Mastodon is not the only federated network out there.

Hey mid! Welcome in this thread. :)
I have never intended to talk about only Mastodon (or ActivityPub, its protocol under the hood), which is just one of the possible programs (and protocols) as you can see here https://the-federation.info/ albeit the most adopted. The link is in my first post too.
Best,