Star GitHub repos on favorite as well as like

[mjgardner]

I am using @dshanske's Post Kinds WordPress plugin, and I noticed that Bridgy only starred a GitHub repo that used the plugin's "Like" rather than "Favorite." This was confusing at first because the plugin uses a star icon to indicate "Favorite."

[snarfed]

Sure! Sounds like this change would need to happen in that WordPress plugin though, not in Bridgy, right? cc @dshanske

[mjgardner]

I’m not so sure. The plug-​in uses a dif­fer­ent prop­er­ty for each (like-​of vs. favorite-​of) and there’s some argu­ment that they mean dif­fer­ent things to users and are treat­ed dif­fer­ent­ly on dif­fer­ent sys­tems, though I don’t think any sys­tem cur­rent­ly uses both. So a POSSE gate­way like Bridgy should con­sol­i­date both to a sin­gle prop­er­ty for sys­tems that do that, but pre­serve the abil­i­ty to keep them sep­a­rate should a dif­fer­ent (or new­er ver­sion) receiv­er dis­tin­guish between the two.

In any case I think the plug-​in should pre­serve the exist­ing prop­er­ties authors have already added to posts rather than lose infor­ma­tion by con­sol­i­dat­ing their mean­ing at the source.

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(Originally published at: https://phoenixtrap.com/2022/11/11/not_sure_bridgy_github_star/)

[snarfed]

Ah, sure! Understood, will do.

Are you posting u-favorite-of posts then? Looks like https://phoenixtrap.com/2022/11/11/bridgy-github/ is a u-like-of, I'm guessing you changed it to make Bridgy understand it. If/when you have a u-favorite-of post, could you add it and yourself to https://indieweb.org/favorite#IndieWeb_Examples ? Favorite posts are still pretty rare on the IndieWeb, and u-favorite-of isn't yet official mf2, unlike u-like-of. I don't even see an issue for it yet. cc @dshanske if Post Kinds is publishing u-favorite-of.

[snarfed]

Interesting data point, ActivityStreams 1.0 includes favorite as distinct from like, but AS 2.0 (which ActivityPub uses) doesn't.

[snarfed]

Done!