Post #2178349

2026-05-03 09:32 UTC

@hongminhee@hollo.social @mariusor@metalhead.club although "URL to media blob directly" is simpler to implement and has more flexibility in cases where you're gonna be using that media outside well-formed AS (say: inline media in HTML)

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@mariusor@metalhead.club 2026-05-03 09:35

@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work for me ActivityPub servers are just ActivityPub servers, there's no using that media outside ActivityPub. There is only one GOD. 🙏 @hongminhee@hollo.social

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@trwnh@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 09:46

@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work @hongminhee@hollo.social i think you could upload the binary media to one endpoint, get an https: url for its Location header, and turn around and Create an Image or whatever with that Location header as the url.href of your new Image although now that this topic comes up: there is a lack of clarity around "image" vs "image representation", since Image assumes "image" and not "image representation". as:url is nominally that "representation" and i wish it was better defined that this was the case...

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