#indiewebcamp 2012-04-18
2012-04-18 UTC
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barnabywalters Anyone here have any idea what the difference is between Activitystreams 'share' and 'reshare' verbs?
# barnabywalters Seems to me like they're for pretty much the same thing
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mkowens barnabywalters: From a semantics perspective, "Share" is for the first time a post is shared, while Reshare is for any time a post is shared from a share.
# mkowens From a practical perspective, though, they are identical actions.
# barnabywalters I thought as much. Similar to 'post' and 'save'
# mkowens Yes. That's my understanding at least.
# mkowens It should be noted that the "verb" that "Reshare" uses is the "Share" verb. "Reshare" is just kind of an alias to the "Share" verb.
# barnabywalters Ah, interesting
# barnabywalters I was about to say that I'll only implement the reshare verb as anything I'm sharing is inherently already shared
# barnabywalters but if share is the 'purer' verb I'll go for that
# mkowens I assume that "Share" is the preferred, more "canonical" (if there is such a thing in this situation) verb.
# barnabywalters looking at the examples in http://wiki.activitystrea.ms/w/page/26918482/Reshare, share is the one to use in the code
# barnabywalters 'reshare' isn't actually an activitystreams verb
# mkowens Yeah
# mkowens it also specifies that Reshares can be implemented as "post" as well.
# barnabywalters I'd class it as a conditional english expression of a verb
# mkowens Look at the "Notes" section.
# mkowens But yes, in general, I'd say the correct activitystreams verb to use is "share"
# barnabywalters ah, cheers, not sure how I missed that
# barnabywalters …notes section
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