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Author access to fediverse followers
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Description

Overview

Give authors the ability to view their fediverse followers.

Background

Authors want to have insight into who's following them from the fediverse.

Goals

  • Give authors basic insight and data they need

Implementation

Create a "Subscribers" page on the management side of the web app (shared with T827). Display a list of ActivityPub actors that are following that specific blog on this page.

Potentially:

  • Include a total number of followers at the top of the page, especially in conjunction with T827
  • Link to this page from the Fediverse Followers count on the Stats page

Requirements

We may need to fetch additional ActivityPub actor data to make this data look good. Right now, we only store their raw actor URI.

  • Easy: display only the username
  • Harder:
    • Display their display name
    • Handle updates to this data (TODO: needs a task here)

Revisions and Commits

Event Timeline

matt triaged this task as Low priority.Feb 24 2021, 6:05 PM
matt created this task.
matt mentioned this in T826: Follower insights.

We can potentially re-use some Read.as code for richer fediverse actor data. But this can move forward, now that T827 is complete.

matt added a commit: Restricted Diffusion Commit.Mar 10 2021, 7:05 PM
matt added a commit: Restricted Diffusion Commit.Mar 10 2021, 7:45 PM
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matt added a commit: Restricted Diffusion Commit.Mar 10 2021, 7:50 PM

Improvements for the future:

  • Show actual preferredUsername in list, instead of guessing based on the URL, or
  • Show actual actor name in the list
    • Automatically update this (listen for this Activity)