@elan those bridge from the blog themselves to AP, i think. the advantage of doing it from a feedreader, from the consumer rather than the producer, is that posts from sources without such bridges could enter the fray.

(of course we could just make bridges from RSS to AP, and bring in lots of sources. i think @darius has done so, and i'm working on some things related.) 1/

@elan @darius in either case, "canonicalization" is an issue. it'd be nice if there were a "canoncal" AP representation of each RSS guid (setting aside some issues about trusting that G for global). some tensions there with federation — the easiest form of canoncalization is an authoritative central service. when producers publish, arguably an advantage is we get that, let their instance be canonical for their posts. 2/

@elan @darius but i wonder whether there aren't clever ways of defining canonical representations without the author's server as the authority, letting maybe the first bridger register via something distributed like IPFS

(more tensions — what if an instance lots of people defederate gets in the business of "claiming" canonical representations of important things.) /fin