Notices by Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com), page 4

@kfdm building something like that for the Fediverse is on our todolist, but I am not focusing on it because I know it will cause an outrage about Mastodon wanting to centralize everything and capture all users or something of the sort. For many very vocal people there, it’s better to have a very bad user experience than something imperfect but which works

@tchambers @timbray @trwnh

@j12t I don’t think so because you need to have RPs list all IdP they support. That work with a few big actors, not the Fediverse.

Custom protocols handlers are probably a better solution, like fedi:// and the browser asks you what you want to open it with

@dale_price if it seems simple and it’s not done, usually there is more complexity.

See https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/31101 for an attempt and more context.

We would like to fix it otherwise, by having the authoring software mark a link as being a link to a specific AP object so when displaying the status you can know it right away and do what is correct.

@tchambers

@tchambers very clear list and agreee on all of them. I hope most of those will be fixed on Mastodon by the end of the year (at least that’s the plan).

#3 is still one that I don’t have many doable ideas on how to fix properly 😞

I will be at the NGI Forum in Brussels next week!

On Thursday I will participate in the NGI Impact Stories panel to explain how @ngi is helping Mastodon, and on Friday on a another panel to discuss tech sovereignty and what can bring in Europe with @openwebsearcheu

You can still register to attend online: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

If you also attend, please come say hi! I will have some Mastodon stickers to distribute and will be happy to discuss anything Mastodon / Fediverse related

#ngiforum

@jensimmons I would love to have a major browser start making progress on supporting custom protocol handlers (or any alternative solution) that could make it smooth for Fediverse users to interact cross-instances.
For example opening fedi://front-end.social/@jensimmons and have the browser direct me to your profile on my instance.
That will probably require work with the W3c and we can help, but having implementors with us is really needed

@anildash let’s talk? 👍

@HistoPol Mastodon 4.4 only support creating quote posts that are created by other software.

You can not yet quote other posts from Mastodon, this will come later in the summer.

@ikuturso @paul

@Sarahp Target for 4.4.0 is end of month (or first week of July).

4.5 is "when we finished fully implementing quote posts", which I hope will be September or October at the latest.

@Gargron

@paul We bump the version as soon as the previous version gets a Release Candidate, so mastodon.social displayed a 4.4 version since last October.

Ingesting remote quote posts is behind an experimental flag that has not yet been enabled on mastodon.social, but it should be very soon.

@HistoPol @Gargron

Our team is growing, and I am very excited that there are now 2 developers focused on the Mastodon web interface, with a designer joining in a few weeks.

Brace yourselves for a lot of interface improvements in Mastodon this year 💅
https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114460783162498046

We are implementing the final version of RFC9421 (HTTP Signatures) in Mastodon, and would like to test this with other ActivityPub implementations.

Do you know of any AP implementations supporting both incoming (verification) and outgoing (signing) RFC9421 signatures, and if possible with support for the double-knocking mechanism as described in https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-http-signature/ (section 3.5)?

#activitypub

@thisismissem @randahl It looks like they all follow the recommended accounts, but we do not see anything abnormal regarding their emails or IPs, and some are definitely real people.

We keep a close eye on this, but we can not block / ban every user that follows some recommended accounts and does not post.

Promouvoir Mastodon, ça se fait aussi (et surtout ?) sur le terrain.

Ça fait plaisir de voir que petit à petit, il y a une vraie prise de conscience sur les sujets de souveraineté numérique et les problèmes posés par les réseaux sociaux centralisés (et leur transformation en arme anti-démocratique)

@BeAware So far, we are not planning to forbid linking to statuses if the person refuses to be quoted. A link is not a quote. There are still a lot of open questions (like, what is the UI behaviour if you paste such a link into the composer? Maybe we should ask the user if they want to transform it into a quote?). This is something we have in mind and will continue working on it. So far we mostly focused on the ActivityPub side of things.

@BeAware This is a very hard question in a decentralised network, as you can not trust any other servers. The research and pre-FEP discussion that we linked in the blog post go into more detail around those questions.
@pierrenick

@laurenshof I just read the latest Fediverse report, and wanted to mention that other AP implementors like Mastodon were also at the longform workshop along with the other mentioned projects. We (Mastodon) want to ensure that consuming long form content over ActivityPub is the best experience possible and are excited with what is cooking :)

@stefan this is the website repository, work is happening in other repos like https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications and https://github.com/mastodon/fasp_ruby

Pachyderms are meeting at #fosdem2025!

❤️ PostgreSQL

Je fais l’aller-retour Paris-Bruxelles en fin de semaine pour le #FOSDEM, en voiture (le coffre rempli de goodies Mastodon), et je cherche un•e passager•e pour ne pas faire la route seul.
Départ de la gare Ermont Eaubonne vendredi vers 9h30, puis départ de Bruxelles lundi vers 11h30.
Avant que je me tourne vers Blablacar, ça intéresse quelqu’un ici ?