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Fediverse: https://mastodon.social/@eyeinthesky

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Some people prefer decentralization over a good UX. Forced to choose, more people prefer the opposite. I don't know which debate you are referring to, but if it's the decentralization "debate", it missed that point.

2025-12-29 15:25:32 UTC

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Have you considered optionally supporting custom domains (where a DNS record points to relay)? Instead of keying off the relay-specific subdomain for the tunnel client lookup, the HTTP HOST header could be used. Would this allow a user to migrate between relay servers without losing their actor URI/identity, posts., etc.?

2025-12-29 10:23:51 UTC

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How does the phone app send the Move if the relay goes offline? Even if the phone can send the activity without the relay, the receiver can't verify the HTTP sig without relay (correct?). In any case, a Move is a notification that my identity (actor URI) has changed (because the relay owned my original identity). Also, AP doesn't support migrating my posts to the new identity. I think this architecture is pretty cool, but the marketing claims are a bit overstated IMO.

2025-12-29 09:40:04 UTC

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> "You truly own your identity, posts, and followers."
Sounds interesting. However, my #ActivityPub identity is my actor URI. The HTTP signature key pair is just the way I prove it's mine. It looks like the Holos relay controls my AP actor URI (and maybe the URI of my posts???). Is that true? What happens if I move to a different relay?

2025-12-17 13:39:56 UTC

Is it correct to say the #Fediverse and #BlueSky are "federated" by protocol bridges? I have similar question related to #Nostr and #Threads and other bridged protocols. Given the #Fediverse is #ActivityPub, what this larger federated social web called?

2025-12-15 08:08:39 UTC

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Not quite true, literally or otherwise. The protocol doesn't require caching. For performance reasons, most, if not all, ActivityPub server implementations cache remote content, but they could also just dereference the remote URIs when remote content is accessed.

2024-11-27 14:06:36 UTC

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You don't even need to read public timelines. A small Mastodon instance that's been online for a few years will have millions of statuses in their database. No scraping necessary. Just write a small bit of code to dump the statuses table to a ML-friendly format.
#data #dataset #mastodon