Anark Karabey
@silverpill that was an interesting talk about activityPub (AP):
One of the slides mentions a few unfulfilled (yet) niches using AP, among which are:
- file sharing
- instant messaging
The presenter argues that AP can handle those use-cases. However, I do believe in leaving those two to 1) torrenting (over i2p, for bonus points), 2) matrix, respectively.
silverpill
@k4r4b3y Overall, good presentation.
>file sharing
I totally agree that torrenting solves the problem of file sharing. But people need to discover content somehow, and forums are good for that. In this area ActivityPub can be really useful.
>instant messaging
Matrix is good but jumping between apps is not convenient. I'd like to have encrypted DMs here as well.
Sooner or later E2EE will be implemented https://wedistribute.org/2023/08/sup-by-pixelfed-is-coming/
Grey Area
>I'd like to have encrypted DMs here as well. > >Sooner or later E2EE will be implemented <https://wedistribute.org/2023/08/sup-by-pixelfed-is-coming/>
Oh boy, MLS. I wonder what they are doing about the "protocol assumes a trusted authentication service" component of the design. This isn't required (see 16.10 of the RFC), but adding more complexity onto what is a complicated protocol is spooky.
silverpill
@greyarea @k4r4b3y Do you think using MLS is a bad idea?
I haven't studied the MLS/MIMI specs but Matrix is adopting it and I assumed that we can do as well.
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