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   silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 02:19:35 JST silverpill

   Announcing Mitra Mini v0.1.0

   Mitra Mini is an ActivityPub client that implements nomadic identity. It has become stable enough that I decided to cut the first release.

   The basic features have been implemented: posts, reposts, likes. For more information, check the project's readme:

   https://codeberg.org/silverpill/minimitra

   It all started nearly four years ago with a vague idea that linking cryptographic keys to #ActivityPub actors could unlock decentralized identity in Fediverse. Eventually, the solution was discovered, and implemented by several projects, but these implementations were servers, not clients. Now there is finally a client, and the design has been proven to work well.

   #NomadicIdentity

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 03:27:12 JST silverpill

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     • Greg Slepak

     @taoeffect It is useful if you want a micro-blog account that is not tied to a single server / domain name.

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     Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 03:27:13 JST Greg Slepak

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     @silverpill cool! What is this useful for that mitra and other things aren't good for?
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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 03:29:49 JST silverpill

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     • James Smith 💾

     @Floppy Thanks!

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     James Smith 💾 (floppy@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 03:29:50 JST James Smith 💾

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     @silverpill oooh, this is intriguing, I will have to read more into it! Nice work :)

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 03:35:09 JST silverpill

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     • Greg Slepak

     @taoeffect There is a caveat, of course. It can communicate with Mastodon and other Fediverse servers, but only a few of them are capable of distinguishing decentralized accounts from regular ones.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 05:25:39 JST silverpill

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     • Todd Sundsted

     @toddsundsted You mean, the entry point for a developer? I started with consuming

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     Todd Sundsted (toddsundsted@epiktistes.com)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 05:25:40 JST Todd Sundsted

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     @silverpill what's the entry point for trying this out? consuming portable objects?

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 06:12:49 JST silverpill

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     • Rimu

     Thank you @rimu !

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     Rimu (rimu@piefed.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 06:12:50 JST Rimu

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     Congrats!

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 10:32:14 JST silverpill

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     • Greg Slepak

     @taoeffect At the moment these servers are Forte, Mitra, tootik. I added this information to "Current limitations" list in the readme.

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     Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 10:32:15 JST Greg Slepak

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     @silverpill Awesome! Would be awesome if you could update the README with details on which ones thos are!
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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Apr-2026 17:35:37 JST silverpill

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     • Greg Slepak

     @taoeffect Mitra is a server, but Mitra Mini is a client. The features I am most interested in require a client: it can work offline, and you don't need to share secret keys with servers.

     They are not totally separate, though. More than 90% of code is shared, so Mitra benefits from Mitra Mini development and vice versa.

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     Greg Slepak (taoeffect@crib.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Apr-2026 17:35:38 JST Greg Slepak

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     @silverpill Why implement a totally separate project for this btw? Why not add nomadic identities to Mitra?