https://mastodon.xyz/users/Profpatsch posted on Mar 24, 2026 12:37
Sorry, but requiring requests to public activitypub objects to be signed is completely whack, merveilles.town
Sorry, but requiring requests to public activitypub objects to be signed is completely whack, merveilles.town
@julian dunno, I'm a bit taken aback by the greeting
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 :)
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.
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.
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.