Notices by Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social), page 2

@feld Will they ever release actual federation features?

@evan So you do claim the term Social Web for a single protocol (and its non-standard add-ons enabling us to talk right now) then. Thanks for being honest about it! However, I'm certainly not the only one to fundamentally disagree with that notion.

@evanprodromou Only one protocol allowed? Why is it not called the ActivityPub devroom or at least fediverse dev room then?

@lain @dosnostalgic They should have chosen an Austrian domain name if they're from Austria instead of Germany. What a moron!

@thisismissem @renchap @polotek I don't know, links are pretty native to the Web in general. Making it sounds like you could ever control your post appearing as a quote in someone's UI is just not honest in my opinion.

TFW you want to order groceries and then realize All Saints Day is a national holiday where you are.

@lain @cjd Since they're refusing to acknowledge that there even is a problem in the first place, there is no way out. You cannot fix something without first agreeing that it's broken. Unfortunately, people can't eat good intentions, or run industrial production on solar and wind energy.

@lain @cjd It's not just U.S. tariffs, but also the EU having to compromise with China on EV tariffs eventually. Not even speaking of the insane electricity costs due to the Nordstream "situation" and the nuclear plant shutdowns.

@dansup "If I were a betting man I would bet that in five years it will keep on using the centralized DID Placeholder, and that that will be a root cause of a lot of shenanigans."

You don't even have to bet, because they just publicly gave up one of their core promises:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239

@jele @mimrma @viktorli

@thisismissem Be that as it may, there will be no E2EE DMs without key pairs. And true data portability also requires them for integrity proofs, no matter how creative you can get.

@lain Ist das noch Journalismus oder kann das weg?

@lain They have a single kind of garbage bin, which says "we separate it for you". That's definitely peak German hospitality.

Also, Airbräu is the best airport restaurant in the country.

Land in Germany
Realize it's MUC
Eat butterbrezn
Board flight to leave Germany again

Oh wow, @ente's on-device magic search is pretty good already!

Cool new feature on Feedbin: it suggests alternatives for broken RSS/Atom feed URLs, so you can easily fix dead subscriptions:

@evan That would be the ideal scenario, because it would allow private DMs across protocols.

Nobody has it implemented for any decentralized protocol yet, so if we don't all ignore each other's work, we might actually be able to make that happen somehow. However, I'm still not very hopeful that everyone can agree on the details. But surely we can try at least.

@evan Yes and no. The mid- to long-term plan is to add private group chats to a Web chat client of ours. So I'm a bit more interested in MLS over XMPP, and I'm following work for MLS over Nostr, which are both good bases for private group messaging, because users of those protocols already have key pairs and encryption for 1:1 chats in place. Also, the client currently only does XMPP and IRC.

But I want to follow the AP work on it, too, because it could be added to the same chat client as well.

@evan Ultimately, it would be amazing if they could all be made interoperable, of course, but I doubt that everyone will ever agree on the same algos and other details. But still, everyone would need the same MLS primitive functions for their Web clients, so that's why the library/API question is interesting to me.

@evan Thanks! Yeah, it seems to me like a high-quality library would solve the same problem, and we'd have to polyfill one anyway, for browsers that don't support MLS primitives natively yet. In the long run, it could increase performance by not having to download that code, of course.

I asked, because I had just looked into the library situation a couple of days ago, and it seems like there's nothing available in TS/JS at the moment:

https://kosmos.social/@raucao/113192277991674267