@user works on all fediverse platforms, but !community does not

i was proposing for this to be a possible solution to make it work across all existing platforms w/o requiring all the other platforms to support lemmy’s system

if using lemmy, it could automatically make this change

this would primarily be used by other fedi platforms to easily differentiate community & users

eg if i followed @sc07@group.toast.ooo on mastodon it would for sure follow [email protected] and not @[email protected] (an account with the same identifier)

but if you search a community up on another fedi platform, it won’t always pick the community or the user (if they have the same name)

as far as the other platforms know, there’s one actor but points to two different accounts

afaik the webfinger spec doesn’t allow for multiple actors having the same identifier, like how lemmy does it (here’s what gets returned when a username matches a community and user)

how I was thinking about it the instance owners would pick the subdomain the communities would be placed on, everything would still route through the main host but external interactions (like following a community) would be routed through the subdomain

eg for blahaj.zone’s lemmy instance it could be setup as users sending in @lemmy.blahaj.zone and communities ending in @group.lemmy.blahaj.zone or something like that

not every community would have it’s own subdomain, no

community actors would just have the hostname part be a different domain eg

users:

• @UserA@toast.ooo
• @UserB@toast.ooo

communities:

• @CommunityA@group.toast.ooo
• @CommunityB@group.toast.ooo

hackliberty.org still links to it, although it returns a service unavailable, so it looks unmaintained

Also the most recent forum post is about how covid is a hoax

https://forum.hackliberty.org/t/operation-coronavirus/103

I’ve gone for colors for my servers and omelette ingredients for my VMs

If I remember correctly, apple also made it so iPad apps automatically work on the Vision Pro unless if the dev explicitly disables it, which is also a plus

It’s recommended you keep the default port because as soon as your IP is known it takes less than 5 minutes to scan every port for an ssh port

I ran into this issue when writing the Canvas authentication thing

There is a standard to simplify authentication and identification across the entire web but it isn’t fully implemented everywhere

OAuth2 is the big name in this, it supplies authorized requests to access data from other companies and services

OpenID is related to OAuth2 but it only supplies identification in a standardized way. OpenID has mechanisms to announce that a specific domain has support for this and how to automatically register for it (removing the need to have a bunch of login buttons)

For Canvas 2024 I’m implementing drop in implementations for popular Fediverse software (including Lemmy)

Hopefully more fedi software implements OAuth2 or at least OpenID to vastly simplify authentication (and possibly replace “login with google”)

Related Links:

• OpenID Core Spec
• OpenID Discovery Spec
• OpenID Dynamic Registration Spec
• [email protected]

I’m planning to split major topics (servers, mapping, skins, plugins, modding, etc) into separate communities on the instance

None of it is live at the moment

If the instance requires verified emails the application won’t even show up to staff if it’s not verified

There’s two archive-friendly solutions Lemmy could take to solve this tho:

1. Detecting archive services and doing a full render for them
2. Instead of using api requests and adding them to the DOM, having them link to a separate page that has the comment thread (like how Reddit does it)

With federated services it’s generally a bad idea to fully delete an account, it’s better to mark the account as “deleted” so future requests can be notified of the deletion

This also prevents people from impersonating others

It’s the chicken & egg problem; people won’t use peertube because there’s no good content on there and content creators wont go there because the people aren’t there

for browse.toast i am planning to have something similar to that – attempting to bring the light to smaller communities

discovery of new communities is a high priority rn

Yeah, but… why?

For this alpha I used a set list of servers but for the full release I plan to include as many servers as I can

Im currently rewriting the instance/community discovery system to make it more efficient

I personally really enjoy Matrix but it’s not really a “fediverse” thing but it is a federated end to end encrypted messaging platform

that would be great, i’ll make sure you add yours as well 😀