Notices by JC Brand (jcbrand@mastodon.xyz), page 2

@alex @3baabe4d008648b5438bfe3180e3d443cbc36478fbabb65007099a96a1c56922

Ultimately I came to the conclusion to drop the gateway and do something that I call Nostr-over-XMPP.

Basically wrapping signed Nostr events inside XMPP messages.

This breaks compatibility with vanilla XMPP clients, but you get some XMPP features to your Nostr account, like a contacts roster, nicknames, blocklists, message history etc.

@alex @3baabe4d008648b5438bfe3180e3d443cbc36478fbabb65007099a96a1c56922

I've been researching and planning to write an XMPP-Nostr gateway and ran into the same issues and had similar ideas to you.

The signing requirement makes Nostr incompatible with other protocols if you want the user to control their keys and your gateway to not know them.

@sven

Strange, my account is almost a decade old, relatively well known (it's publicly indexed) and I almost never get spam.

I did block a few spammy XMPP servers, but that was years ago.

It's happened so many times and I'm still amazed when I'm stuck with some programming problem, only to take a long break, or to sleep on it, and then next time I look at it I solve in in 5 minutes.

Grinding can be counter-productive.

Feeling really constrained by the 500 char limit today.

Such a ridiculous way to try and communicate with people.

Thinking of creating my own instance just so that I can write longer posts when I want to.

@alex @silverpill @polarisera

I added libsignal based E2EE for Converse.js, a web XMPP client.

Every tab is definitely not a new device. The browser itself is however a device.

The Signal desktop app is also basically a web-app wrapped in Electron.

The main issue with E2EE over a website is that served JavaScript can't be signed and verified and the code can change at any time. But Electron apps also self-update, so ?♂️

If the code is 100% FOSS and you self-host, it's much less of an issue

@mattj @downey

This definitely goes both ways.

You'll be hard-pressed to find (for example) a Hacker News comments page for an article about XMPP that does not include a bunch of people talking about how Matrix is better.

Tribalism is a base human tendency and also manifests in FOSS projects.

@strypey @djsumdog @msh

I feel a bit sorry for the journos.

That said, if you think this is somehow just about Trump, it just shows the limitations of your own understanding.

Trump tapped into an existing mistrust of corporate media, he didn't create it.

Journalists are dangerous. They dox people, they misrepresent and propagandize.

They carry water for the military industrial complex, security state, big pharma etc.

They are also the cause of a lot of the toxicity on Twitter.

@mxtthxw @jimmyrayreid

It's just the common phenomenon of people showing off on social media.

Like how people post photos of their holiday in Greece, but not of themselves having just woken up with a swollen face and lines under the eyes.

I've contemplated writing an introduction but decided it's mostly cringe.

@Unabart

If you can get other people to use it, #XMPP with OMEMO end-to-end-encryption is pretty secure.

Conversations is an excellent Android client. There are iPhone clients, but they're not as good sadly.

Bonus points if you run your own server (which is probably much easier than running dobbs.town).

Check out @snikket_im

@adamdavidson

A while back it was an ugly conspiracy theory that Covid came from a lab.

Imagine calling yourself "journalist" but then creating a safe space for yourself where you're not confronted with certain ideas.

@alex We were relatively poor at the time. I was freelancing 100% on Converse, declining other work. We were barely covering expenses.

They offered a generous hourly rate. I was tempted, but it also felt wrong, having a 3 month old girl.

I discussed it with my wife a few times. Eventually I got a great job offer somewhere else. Full time employment still working on Converse 90% of the time integrating it into an existing site.

@alex Does soapbox support theming?

Are there alternative themes that one can try out?

@alex I got contacted by the MyFreeCams people in 2018. They wanted me to integrate Converse.

I declined, just had my daughter being born and didn't feel like working on something like that.

They then went with Pleroma I heard later.

@roundy

What made me sad was seeing a child going out trick or treating alone with her mother. No friends? ?

Yesterday I released Converse 10.0.0

https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v10.0.0

Converse is a web-based #XMPP client.

The UI is all web components done with https://lit.dev

There's an Electron version that will be updated to 10.0.0 soon and a Tauri version.

Tauri is a Rust-based Electron alternative.

Converse-Tauri is the first XMPP client that supports QUICK, via xmpp-proxy from @moparisthebest

https://github.com/conversejs/converse-tauri

@Hyolobrika

The gigantic fake breasts and nipples are obscene. That's enough IMO to disallow this.

Would they allow someone with a gigantic penis visibly going down the side of his trousers?

Besides being obscene, it's also offensive. It makes a mockery of womanhood. They wouldn't allow someone wearing a swastika due to its offensive nature, so why this?

@technicalissues @podverse @matrix @liberachat

Matrix has made it part of the marketing strategy to say that they're all about providing interoperability and bridges between chat protocols.

The funny thing is, this is largely the same stuff that XMPP people said twenty years ago.

For XMPP, there is Biboumi which is a bridge between IRC and XMPP and which works well.

Besides IRC, are there other platforms that are reliably bridged to Matrix? They stopped making an effort bridging XMPP.

@technicalissues @podverse @matrix @liberachat

Eventually it fell upon an XMPP-guy to work on improving the Matrix/XMPP bridge.

https://aria-net.org/SitePages/Portal/Bridges.aspx