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silverpill

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  • What would you like to see on the Fediverse?

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  • When exactly does something count as part of the Fediverse?

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  • I suggested the following definition for Fediverse Enhancement Proposals:

    The Fediverse includes applications, services and communities using the ActivityPub protocol, its predecessors, and other historically related protocols that foster decentralized and diverse social media and culture.

    https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/544/files

    Under this definition, Hubzilla and Webfinger are parts of Fediverse.

    Unfortunately, this PR was bike-shedded into oblivion.

  • Can federating be modified so it's not dependent domain names?

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  • What’s your opinion on tags.pub?

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  • If you run a small micro-blog instance, you follow some people and maybe some communities. Tagged posts come only through these follows, so you only see a tiny portion of all tagged posts.

    A hashtag relay tries to aggregate tagged posts from the whole network. By following a hashtag on such relay you can see more posts on the topic that interests you.

  • What’s your opinion on tags.pub?

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  • I think it is a useful service, because it helps small instances discover content. However, this idea is not new and another service of that kind, FediBuzz, has been operating for a long time.

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  • Forte and tootik use FEP-ef61 with server-managed keys. I am working on an application where keys are stored on the client side: minimitra. This is probably closer to your idea.

    Do you want to use iroh for transport, or for identity?

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  • Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?

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  • @SorteKanin My server translates Lemmy upvotes into likes and downvotes into dislikes. That blends quite well in the UI with Mastodon's "favorites" and Pleroma/Misskey emoji reactions, so I think Lemmy's assumptions are correct

  • theoretical considerations on identity management

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  • Identity based on a pubic key is already not theoretical, it is supported by services that implement FEP-ef61.

    I am not sure whether it makes sense to separate data hosting and feed generation, this will probably require a specific network architecture, similar to Bluesky, which tends to be centralized.

  • Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?

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  • I doubt that it will be implemented in Lemmy, the application architecture needs to be different in order to support cryptographic identities.But there are other implementations (they are listed near the end of the document).

  • Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?

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  • Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?

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  • What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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  • How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P?

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  • Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only

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  • Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only

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  • I don't know much about recent developments, but the early version of the protocol had several major flaws:

    Identity is based on a non-rotatable key, other types of identity are not supported. No privacy without encryption. Media attachments are not supported, all images are stored on a single server. Servers only store data and don't do anything else, so they get abstracted away and everyone uses the same 5 relays (in Fediverse each server has a personality, and that creates a strong incentive to self-host).

    There are also many minor things that I dislike, for example the use of numbers instead of human-readable names, unusual cryptography and so on.

  • Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

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  • Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

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  • 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.

  • Community mention spam from Microblogs

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  • Sucks, right, because on the theadiverse, you're not actually able to do that so easily.

    Sounds like an unnecessary limitation of threadiverse software. Why limit a post to only one community? That doesn't make any sense.

    The person who made the post with multiple mentions clearly did it intentionally, and I would do the same because for every topic I am interested in there are 4-5 groups on different servers.

    Every mentioned person gets addressed

    In most cases, this is what a user wants. Some platforms support silent mentions, though (Friendica, if I remember correctly).

    hashtag / community tag soup

    I think this should be viewed as a moderation problem, not a protocol problem. If you don't want to see mention soup, just limit the number of mentions per post on your instance.