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@i The thing is that it’s really not useful to define super generic terms that are not even pointing to existing implementations, and could have any semantics.

We need a report about what is actually used, and exactly how.

@silverpill @i That is very cool and I don’t know how I haven’t seen it before; it kinda invalidates part of the nlnet funding ideas that I wanted to apply for :)

@Profpatsch @i It is an invaluable tool, and has so much potential, but the development is kind of slow.

Perhaps you can apply as a contributor?

New post: Can we have a more “social” media?

https://profpatsch.de/essays/a-more-social-media

On advertising, the Fediverse, and what a more human social web could look like.

Special mentions: @smallcircles, @phnt, @happy-programming

#fediverse #activitypub #socialmedia

@Profpatsch You need to create a new signature because the request target is changing. It is a part of a signature base, so the initial signature becomes invalid when the client follows a redirect.

@liaizon

@Profpatsch @liaizon The guide recommends limiting the response size, to prevent DoS.

I also found this in your SECURITY.md:

https://codeberg.org/Profpatsch/Profpatsch/src/commit/249aa389a2023814b328af8fc795750fd28d995d/users/Profpatsch/activitypub-go/security.md#response-body-size-limits

@Profpatsch @Edent I see this is now merged, has it now been tested against how these new unicode actors will federate across to mastodon and other platforms that don't allow unicode usernames? cc @north

@liaizon @Edent @north It completely fails with mastodon unfortunately, we hope we can create some pressure for then to implement sane internationalization of usernames :)

@liaizon @Edent @north But yeah, it’s exceptionally silly to be a project with an aspiration for international communities, and then not allow people to sign up in their native e.g. Amharic or Han scripts

@julian @Profpatsch oh, yeah, definitely. It's really our only way to authenticate requests right now.

@evan @julian yeah, not saying anything against authentication via signatures, that’s a valid use-case if done correctly.

So I got this bot that allows multiple people to curate a list of toots that are boosted by it, to create a nice topical account to follow.

Now I only need ideas what to boost haha :)

#Activitypub #fediverse

Congrats, you just reinvented FEP 1b12, the foundation for Lemmy, PieFed and Mbin.

@rimu not really no, but thanks for the snarky comment

Activitypub micropayments idea:
what if instead of some digital token like Taler or Monero, I send a digital “cheque” instead, which is a signed payment intent, signed with the other actor’s e.g. Liberapay pubkey.

At the end of the month, the other person can take all these micropayment cheques and prove to liberapay that other people owe you money, and everything is settled in one transaction.

#Activitypub #micropayments #taler #liberapay

@Profpatsch

Cool idea. Apple does something similar with their App Store payments. You buy a bunch of things and they hold the charges for a day or two, then charge it all at once.

It would be more difficult in a decentralized environment, though, if I’m aggregating charges for/from many different people.