@fiona i wish mastadon, indieweb websites and micro blog would be able to work together as one network.
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aaronpk_tv
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"Dear @cwebber, I don't suppose you have opinions about how to implement a web of trust system for the fediverse???"
Heck yeah I have opinions, and here's how you do it: you combine it with a petnames system: https://chat.indieweb.org/social/2018-08-14#t1534216302328700 -
by signing your objects with LDS or another scheme, it allows a hostile implementation to boost them even if they are not public (!)
if you do not sign your objects, then they will have to be referenced with a pointer, these pointers are known as "capability URLs" and allow for your instance to make the access control decision (your code can either give them the object or not based on what they gave you) -
Great to see podcast apps picking this up again 🎉 Was our biggest success at Flattr in my opinion - that clients could discover Flattr-capability in the RSS and eg. auto-flattr episodes. We promoted and used rel-payment ourselves and I long ran a site listing supporters.
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Annika Backstrom
https://xoxo.zone/@annika
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Aug 13
I followed like 10 remote folks today using my Greasemonkey script that replaces Remote Follow buttons with direct links to my home instance. It saved a bunch of hops and was way better than pasting my username into remote servers.
Definitely thinking this should be a browser extension.
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Sounds like fun! I'm traveling this week but I should have some time on Thursday!
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Mastodon is compatible with litepub by the fact that litepub is a subset of the specific variant of activitypub that Mastodon chose to use.
But I think litepub has better security attributes, because of the strong requirement for using pointers (capability IRIs) to content not controlled by the local instance.
Mastodon security posture is that LDS is good enough because Delete messages can be redistributed along the DAG (the acyclic graph of peers of peers all the way down known as the fediverse) to ensure object integrity. but, the reality is pushing state around is harmful. instead, litepub's requirement for capability IRIs solves the problem cleanly.
there are some edgecases involving tracking what instances have received an object, but it's not impossible to solve those.
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Also reposting this on the new instance:
If any mastodon devs are looking for design help and would like a hand from the original designer of blogger.com, who recently redesigned the WordPress.com Reader, and wrote an early book on the design of community spaces online, let me know because I can put you in touch with him.
Because he’s me. Hi. Let’s talk.
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Jon Mitchell
https://jonmitchell.net/micro/?author=50537478e4b0e1565e12dbbe
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Aug 12
The more I do it, the cooler I find microcasting on a technical level. The format (I arbitrarily chose) of writing 300 words, recording it, and posting both together makes for accessible, multimedia text on the web, and a podcast app is just as good as a browser for it.
hah I never thought of setting a word limit for myself for a microcast, even though I often write them out first!
