This repository functions as a notebook and a draft for potential ways to enable server-to-server communication for üWave. The goal is to allow users to sign up for a single server, and then use that account and their playlists on other servers seamlessly.
Where possible, existing web standards should be used.
- OAuth is probably a good way to go to share user accounts.
- We can maybe auto-auth if you have joined a server, and join a different one via an üWave announce server in the server's UI (ref u-wave/web#864).
- Like mastodon we can disambiguate users by their home server.
reanna@u-wave.exampleandreanna@wlk.yt
- ActivityStreams could be used to share playlists, plays, user profiles.
- POST updates you do on a different server to your home server's ActivityPub inbox (but see note in next point).
- ActivityPub has an
outboxconcept that seems like a nice replacement for the announce server's custom format, it could GET the outbox and receive HistoryEntry Objects. But we would not implement most other ActivityPub things so maybe there is a more focused spec that would be better suited.