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 16.Dd $Mdocdate$
 17.Dt HONK 1
 18.Os
 19.Sh NAME
 20.Nm honk
 21.Nd federated status conveyance
 22.Sh DESCRIPTION
 23The
 24.Nm
 25utility processes federated status updates and other microblog activities.
 26This is the user manual.
 27For administration, see
 28.Xr honk 8 .
 29.Pp
 30This manual is still incomplete.
 31It'll get there eventually.
 32.Ss Honkers
 33In order to receive regular updates from other users, they must first
 34be added to one's honker collection.
 35Begin at the
 36.Pa honkers
 37tab.
 38The
 39.Ar url
 40field is required.
 41Either of two forms are accepted, the user's handle (or webfinger) or their
 42ActivityPub actor URL.
 43The
 44.Ar name
 45field is optional and will be automatically inferred.
 46Examples:
 47.Dl @user@example.social
 48.Dl https://example.social/users/user
 49.Pp
 50.Pp
 51Fellow honkers may be added to one or more
 52.Ic combos
 53to suit one's organizational preferences.
 54These are accessed via the
 55.Pa combos
 56tab and allow easy access to particular groupings.
 57The special combo name of one hyphen
 58.Sq -
 59will remove a honker's posts from the primary feed.
 60.Ss Viewing
 61The primary feed is accessed via the home tab.
 62It will contain posts from nearly all honkers.
 63Posts mentioning the user, both followed and not, are collected under the
 64.Pa @me
 65tab.
 66.Pp
 67Individual honks contain a visual representation of the honker's ID,
 68their name, the activity (with a link back to origin), a link to the
 69parent post if applicable, and the convoy (thread) identifier.
 70Screenshot below.
 71.Pp
 72.Lk screenshot-honk.png screenshot of one honk
 73.Pp
 74Available actions are:
 75.Bl -tag -width tenletters
 76.It Ic bonk
 77Share with followers.
 78Not available for nonpublic honks.
 79.It Ic honk back
 80Reply.
 81.It Ic mute
 82Mute this entire thread.
 83Existing posts are hidden, and future posts will not appear in any feed.
 84.It Ic zonk
 85Delete this post.
 86When deleting one's own post, other servers will be requested to remove it,
 87but this is unreliable.
 88.It Ic ack
 89Acknowledge reading this post.
 90Typically if it's a reply to one's own post.
 91.It Ic save
 92Save this honk to make it easy to find later.
 93.It Ic edit
 94Change it up.
 95Alas, Update activities do not federate reliably.
 96.El
 97.Ss Honking
 98Refer to the
 99.Xr honk 5
100section of the manual.
101.Ss HFCS
102Sometimes other users of the federation can get unruly.
103The honk filtering and censorship system,
104.Xr hfcs 1 ,
105can be of great use to restore order to one's timeline.
106.Sh ENVIRONMENT
107.Nm
108is designed to work with most browsers, but for optimal results it is
109recommended to use a
1102015 or later Thinkpad X1 Carbon with 2560x1440 screen running
111.Ox
112and chromium at 150% scaling with the dwm window manager.
113This will enable the main menu to line up just right.
114.Sh SEE ALSO
115.Xr intro 1 ,
116.Xr honk 8
117.Sh STANDARDS
118.Pp
119.Lk https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ "ActivityPub"
120.Pp
121.Lk https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/ "Activity Vocabulary"
122.Sh HISTORY
123Started March 2019.
124.Sh AUTHORS
125.An Ted Unangst Lk @tedu@honk.tedunangst.com https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu
126.Sh CAVEATS
127The ActivityPub standard is subject to interpretation, and not all
128implementations are as enlightened as
129.Nm .
130.Sh BUGS
131Only features.