Notices by Raphael Lullis (raphael@mastodon.communick.com), page 6

@feld if the "art" can be generated by any script kiddie, yes.

@feld but honestly, even the world of physical art seems like a huge ponzi and a mechanism for money laudering, so there is that.

I do see the value of https://ens.domains and https://unlock-protocol.com , though.

@feld is it a ponzi?

@feld the NFT ponzis are gone for sure.

@dansup almost. What I am saying is that you don't even need to upload the contact list. You can do the matching in the device.

@dansup you can do this is in a privacy-preserving way, no?

- Instead of asking the user to upload their contacts, get the user own email/phone/pixelfed account handle.

- Upload a hash of the private contact information, paired with clean text pixelfed account info.

- Other people now are able to find each other by simply asking your service "do you know anyone with this hash?", and in case your service answers yes, then your app can say "yes, you should talk with so-and-so@pixelfed.

@alex @jawsh @silverpill

Generalizing the use case, couldn't we have "PaymentRequest" and "Payment" activity types? And perhaps use the Payment Request Web API to implement the UI as a browser extension?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Request_API/Using_the_Payment_Request_API

@alex @josh

The "hub20 site" would be the frontend, which is deployed at https://app.hub20.io. You will be asked what backend you want to connect to.

For the backend, there is one demo instance deployed at https://demo.hub20.io, but to be honest I haven't checked in what shape it is.

@josh Small correction: in the EU, the payment network is SEPA. IBAN is just the numbering system for bank accounts.

@alex Regarding "FOSS self-hosted platform", this will be the 378th time that I tell you about https://hub20.io, which started as a "payment gateway and "self-hosted Venmo for crypto", but it has since become extensible for *any* type of payment network and wouldn't take too much work to add FedNow support.

Please don't reinvent this wheel, and take a look at hub20.

@jcrabapple

This is not as bad as it sounds. You can have all the moderation/filtering/censorship done at the edges. and it also gives more power to the people and makes us all less reliant on moderators.

@hywan @fnord please let's break this meme that each instance should represent exclusively one type of tribe.

ActivityPub Instances should be seen no different than email servers. No one asks "which email provider is more appropriate to send messages about X?"

This seems to be the hill I'll die on: https://raphael.lullis.net/federations-and-identity/