They also are ActivityPub objects that expand to the full id ✨

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/115876278291815667

They also are ActivityPub objects that expand to the full id

We use snowflake ids, then hashids in permalinks that expand. It's beautifully simple, yet clever.

d9VqOD2_gu => 236972985113375774

https://loops.video/v/d86zgftFT9?rid=d9VqOD2_gu · BrowserPub · A browser for exploring ActivityPub and the fediverse

Explore the open social web through the lens of ActivityPub and the fediverse.

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#ActivityPub

@dansup I don't understand why do you have to convert the alphanumeric string to just numbers though?

@bojanlandekic the long numbers are the keys to each video, but are long, so we convert them to a shorter alphanumeric string by leveraging a longer "alphabet" to represent the numbers more efficiently.

@dansup hmmm I sort of understand, but why is the conversion even required? Why can't the alphanumeric things be the database keys themselves? Why must they be just numbers?