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Now that is good news. At the moment, we have a xkcd/927 situation on our hands.

ActivityPub is a successor to ActivityStreams/Salmon which Mastodon and GNU social are currently using. At least with these it's not really a xkcd/927 situation.

Diaspora? Pump.io? Patchwork (the SSB thing)?

Why do you drop other names? Diaspora is a tool, not a standard. If they are still developing that then they may actually implement to read and share data in the standard as well.

However, they haven't done that yet. So they're competing "standards," even if one isn't standardized.

An announced successor is still xkcd/927 until it actually replaces all use of the predecessors.

Case in point: pump.io is the successor of OStatus and StatusNet.

Tangent: I just typed `xkcd/927` in Safari and it took me directly to the XKCD page. Is this some kind of Safari easter egg? It doesn't work in Chrome or Firefox.

I want this to be true.

Confirmed here too.

I think you're on to something. It worked with xkcd/<anything> for me.

some browsers add .com automatically, try again with example/1234

Hmm, you may be correct. The pattern seems to work generally.

example/123 --> http://www.example.com/123

facebook/someusername --> https://www.facebook.com/someusername

I tried on Mobile Safari too but it didn't seem to expand there.

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