On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 11:24 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:

> At the higher OStatus-y level... the way we handle subscriptions right 
> now is to sorta say 'ask the user who they are, then redirect over to 
> that web site and let it deal with the subscription setup'. We should be 
> able to do pretty much the same thing for initiating favoriting from a 
> foreign site:
> 
> * prompt for the user's home account (if not already known/remembered)
> * do webfinger & xrd discovery to find ostatus UI points
> * redirect to the home site's "favorite a remote notice" endpoint, with 
> the URI of the notice
> * home site fetches the remote notice if necessary, gets user's 
> confirmation of the favoriting action
> ^- above is not yet implemented, but very similar to subscribe workflow
> v- below is already in the system
> * local favorite is added on the imported notice
> * OStatus/Salmon ping to the remote site to notify it of the favoriting

+1, I think we're in agreement.

> On 9/19/10 3:00 PM, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote:
> > That reminds me sooooooo much of my old wish bug for a StatusNet "proxy"
> > like, that would allow you to browser a remote server with your
> > credencial/account
> 
> *nod* I've been thinking about good ways to present that; there's 
> definite advantages to being able to see user profile, group info etc as 
> well as notice streams through the interface of your home site -- you'll 
> have all your native controls for sub/unsub/block/join/leave etc on 
> profiles and fave/repeat/reply/etc on notices.
> 
> I'm not sure how easily we can squeeze that into the current arch on 
> StatusNet but it's definitely on my mind for potential 2.0 architectures.

I think OpenID is the key here. We're going to need this kind of thing
as we get better with private data; for example, m...@example.com logging
into k...@example.net to see their posted photos.

-Evan


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