A Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP) is a document that provides information to the Fediverse community. The goal of a FEP is to improve interoperability and well-being of diverse services, applications and communities that form the Fediverse.

The FEP Process is an initiative of the SocialHub developer community, a liaison of the W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group.

Discovered this today. If you're on the developer side of things or are interested in how the Fediverse / ActivityPub is being built and enhanced, take a look at this codeberg repo.

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[–] silverpill@mitra.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

>Currently it's hard to read, there is no single document. No single source of truth.

We can make it happen.

I am currently working on this: https://codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/branch/main/guide.md. It's a guide for developers, but in the future it may be used as a base for a more formal specification.

[–] julian@activitypub.space 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hmm, how do you reconcile the fact that not all FEPs are applicable to all application types?

For example soft deletion is preferable but not required...

[–] Cooper8@feddit.online 1 points 2 weeks ago

You could include "either x or y or z..." specifications in the unified documentation.

So "Either soft deletion is to be disabled as by default in which case [explain standard behavior], or it is to be enabled by [yadda yadda]..."

The single document is searchable and cross-referenced internally, making it better in many cases.

[–] silverpill@mitra.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

By separating core protocol requirements and optional features.

The guide has a section titled "Protocol features":

https://codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/commit/f1ee497085f56cde9860b9417eba8cd05cd1522a/guide.md#protocol-features

This is a place where information about optional features is collected, and soft deletion FEP could be mentioned there. A formal specification could be structured in a similar way.