Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

https://fediversity.site/channel/mikedev

Creating a kinder, gentler fediverse and open social web. It starts by giving you full control of your inbox and your audience.

Communications technologist. Internet, web, and fediverse pioneer. I build free communications tools in my spare time for free people based on common sense and what works, not on what sells. Systems integration, software development, and robot repair. Former music store owner. Plays a mean guitar, upside down and backwards.

I came from the San Francisco bay area of the 1960s. Make of that what you will. I cut my teeth professionally in the bat-shit crazy world of Silicon Valley through the early 2000s, and have seen greed up close and personal -- and once played the tech startup game with gusto. I'm well and truly over it.

Currently living mostly off-grid on a modest farm in rural Australia.

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mikedev_at_fediversity.site@momostr.pink

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2024-08-10T14:24:06Z

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2024-06-03 23:48:20

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Might be worth a footnote - a couple of projects (Friendica and Hubzilla) are still using LD-Signatures for verification and Mastodon may or may not still validate these. It did so at one point. That's how we did things before 8b32.

2024-05-17 04:16:19

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Most everybody uses followers, following and outbox in some form. We also use them for Access Lists (aka circles/aspects) and photo albums and search results. I'll probably use them for event calendars soon. And of course as mentioned we use them for conversations so that everybody sees the same view of the discussion. It's a very under-utilised organisational mechanism and that seems odd. They're quite useful.
Everybody has lists of all kinds of things on their server, but turning them into collections means you can share them.

2024-05-17 03:54:09

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Yeah I've had a number of times where I wanted to query a collection - but hopefully something a bit more lightweight than a full blown query language.
And in the Nomad protocol, we've got delivery notifications. It's critical to finding out what happened to something in a decentralised communication system. It's 2024. Vanishing into space without any trace is not an option.

2024-05-17 00:21:00

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> "But how embedded images should be treated by implementations that use media cache? Are they expected to rewrite src attributes in images?"
That's what we do today. Would be interested in alternative approaches. We don't even try and cache audio/video.