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   silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 07:16:22 JST silverpill

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   • Tim Bray

   @timbray

   > I already mentioned web+ap: and then there’s web+activitypub: from silverpill (which may be the same?),

   web+activitypub: is not my idea, that FEP was submitted by @jenniferplusplus. You can view proposal metadata by clicking on a small arrow button above the title - unfortunately Codeberg doesn't display this section by default due to a bug.

   Also:

   >Solving migration pain
   >Now, as far as I know, Mastodon doesn’t have any capabilities like that, nor does any other Fediverse software.

   Streams and its fork Forte have data portability over ActivityPub. These Fediverse servers use portable identifiers, it's a bit similar to what you describe, but with additional cryptographic assurances that posts on different servers belong to the same person: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md

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     Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 07:16:23 JST Tim Bray

     In which I claim that a few annoying #Fediverse problems (and ATproto too) could be solved by using URI schemes the way they’re designed to be used: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/16/Decentralized-Schemes