Notices by Adora (She/Her) (adora@tech.lgbt)

@Polychrome 😭😭 nooooooooo

@Polychrome I sure hope not 😂😭😂

@lina so first off, i love the idea. this isn't criticism at all, its unfiltered support.

so here's where stuff is getting messy:
I assume the idea is because people can move instances, otherwise you wouldn't need something to "vouch" in the first place.

so putting the implementation specifics aside, we need something thats:
1) centralized and trusted
2) not prone to loss, otherwise when people lose a computer/phone/authenticator/whatever they no longer have their proof

and this takes us back to PGP keyservers and certificate authorities all over again.

so your best bet would be to find a way to leverage something like a CA or PGP keyserver thats been very established and trusted and use it in conjuction with some api translation layer to function the way you need it to.

and yes, i know that answer sounds bad, feels bad and isn't fun at all.

@wizzwizz4 @lina @keyoxide lol i was actually going to mention them as an option, but I didn't want to be overwhelming, because @lina didn't settle on PGP keys specifically.

@Polychrome haha fuck i forgot those....

I don't even know the names of all of the ones i poked at if we include mobile and things like the C64

and thats not including the old games and programs you would boot into, which are..kinda? their own OSes?

and of course reactos.

@Polychrome haha we counting linux distros? versions? kernels?
literally could be here listing them all day

@puniko

@puniko so cuteeee *pets pets*

@puniko kitty ?

@MiaWinter @cleo @puniko to be fair, they had been working on the project for a while, but had to release it in a less than complete state because of the shutdown of Twitter API.

I really don't think that this is a master plan to undermine the open web or something

@cleo @MiaWinter @puniko so maybe I'm being overly generous - I saw it as "we're doing our best to provide a good experience, and that means we're restricting things to servers we can test on, as we grow."

But @ivory @paul is a human being and can definitely respond for himself.

I've used tapbots products back when I was on IOS and I never felt there was an intentional attempt to make a lesser user experience ever