Yarmo @yarmo@fosstodon.org
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PhD student in Neuroscience. Passionate about brains, open science/source/access, data science, machine learning & webdev
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Joined Apr 2019
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@fribbledom You've got me thinking about the portability of identity as well.
I came to realise that Mastodon (and probably, all existing ActivityPub implementations), have an artificial coupling of user's data and the server instance.
Consider emails, which arguably is the most portable and prevalent form of internet-based communication, does not suffer from this coupling problem: I can host emails on my own server today, and have Google to host them tomorrow. Users are free to move hosting providers, as long as they have control of their domain names. OTOH, for those who don't really care about portability, there're gmail.com or hotmail.com addresses.
To me, identities in ActivityPub work very much like gmail or hotmail addresses, but the protocol does not support addresses with custom domains, without forcing the domain owners to run their own instances.
Why can't ActivityPub has something similar to DNS MX records for server discovery?
I believe it's beneficial to the fediverse users if identities in ActivityPub can work the same way as email addresses. Earlier I said it's an "artificial coupling" - I speculate that if a standard is created to define how servers can exchange the social graphs and other data, it won't be very difficult to create an extension the the AP protocol to realise identity portability.
I came to realise that Mastodon (and probably, all existing ActivityPub implementations), have an artificial coupling of user's data and the server instance.
Consider emails, which arguably is the most portable and prevalent form of internet-based communication, does not suffer from this coupling problem: I can host emails on my own server today, and have Google to host them tomorrow. Users are free to move hosting providers, as long as they have control of their domain names. OTOH, for those who don't really care about portability, there're gmail.com or hotmail.com addresses.
To me, identities in ActivityPub work very much like gmail or hotmail addresses, but the protocol does not support addresses with custom domains, without forcing the domain owners to run their own instances.
Why can't ActivityPub has something similar to DNS MX records for server discovery?
I believe it's beneficial to the fediverse users if identities in ActivityPub can work the same way as email addresses. Earlier I said it's an "artificial coupling" - I speculate that if a standard is created to define how servers can exchange the social graphs and other data, it won't be very difficult to create an extension the the AP protocol to realise identity portability.
@dansup I was looking for pixelfed API. So pixelfed API is same as Mastodon API, is that correct?
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I want to make it clear that my Pixelfed Lens app is not the official Pixelfed mobile app.
An "official mobile app" goes against everything the project represents. #pixelfed
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For #NameAndFame Friday, I'd like to give a shout out to a #Foss tool that plays an important role in my daily work: Ansible!
Ansible is an amazing automation tool with very clear syntax, which can manage anything over ssh; servers, switches, apps, or workstations. We will be using it today to deploy our entire new infrastructure from code. This article gives a fun intro on how to configure a workstation with Ansible: https://opensource.com/article/18/3/manage-workstation-ansible
Who would you like to boost for #nameandfame Friday?
#nameandfame Friday is here! I haven't used this tool yet, but discovered it this week and can't wait to create my own #VST plugins for music production!
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Oh hell, could people *please* stop providing installers asking you to wget some arbitrary script off the web and pipe it into a root shell? There seem very few ideas worse than this. ๐
The #fediverse (my fediverse?) seems so serious... I'm super tired, more than halfway drunk and it's all so serious. Politics, devs talking about CPU architectures...
Am I fediversing wrong?
Love you all
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@trollnad_dump @Mallabori
Erreur de ma part, c'est le "paradoxe de la tolรฉrance."
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You may notice a new button on our GitHub repo!
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#Facebook lies to Dutch Parliament about election manipulation โ @edri@twitter.com member @bitsoffreedom@twitter.com reports: https://edri.org/facebook-lies-to-dutch-parliament-about-election-manipulation/
The story in German translation: https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2019/facebook-politische-werbung /f
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To Google Play users, I didn't remove the app from the Playstore but it won't receive new updates.
Only Fdroid and the paid version will receive them.
The new version was moved here :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.fedilab.android
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Today is an important day, #europe votes today. Use your voice and go #vote! #europeanparliament
Just voted in the European #elections! Please remember to do the same (on the right day ๐)
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Would you enjoy differently-sized headings, blockquotes, code blocks, bullet point lists and other rich text features in toots on your home feed?
(Screenshot follows in next toot)
#nameandfame
hastebin is an awesome self hosted solution to replace pastebin! #foss all the way!
Guess how many buttons need to be pressed to unsubscribe from all the #quora emails?
15!
And the button is poorly detecting touch!!
(That last one could be linked to phone, browser, me...)
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- yarmo
PhD student in Neuroscience. Passionate about brains, open science/source/access, data science, machine learning & webdev
he/him
speaks ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฒ๐ซ
Joined Apr 2019
