This initiative is by no means official to the Diaspora project in any way; We Distribute runs automated channels intended to serve as a communication bridge. Occasionally updates referring to this channel may be made for questions about curation.
This channel can be subscribed to via #ActivityPub, #Ostatus, #Diaspora, and #Zot. Anyone is encouraged to comment on statuses and engage with the community.
This requires some adjustment and fine-tuning, but you can subscribe to it through Diaspora, Friendica, GNU Social, Mastodon, Socialhome, Hubzilla, or anywhere that can use #OStatus, #ActivityPub, #Diaspora Protocol, or #Zot.
> So if the proposed client/server protocol says the client should send a request twice and discards the first result (a Level 3/design-level statement), and the designer tells you it’s because there are three different kinds of request handlers in the codebase, and Bob’s sometimes gets it wrong the first time (a Level 2/implementation-level statement), you should get confused. You should be as confused as if someone wanted to call a file or write to a function.
@hobbithabit #WrongThink: wrongthink.net was once a GNU Social instance, but they replaced that with a home-grown non-federated site long ago. If you've seen them on some blocklist, that's just because those lists are poorly-researched at best. ( #BlockWars is the usual context in which wrongthink is raised. )
@mike Mike Cole is a young gaming enthusiast from #AR. He currently has 418 subscribers (same as me), and it means a lot to him to have more people subscribing. He admins the nulled.red #Mastodon instance.
@tekk is a college student and gaming enthusiast (I'm not sure which state. #TN? #KY?). Fun fact: Tekk coded his own minimal #OStatus #fediverse implementation as his senior project.
@maiyanna@community.highlandarrow.com writes game reviews on the Highland Arrow site. She's also working on a fork of #GNU_Social called #postActiv.
Security between #OStatus and #ActivityPub is exactly the same. If that's the sole advantage you're looking for, you'll be soundly disappointed on an AP-only network.
As for the #blockwars problem that Roy @schestowitz mentioned, the only possible solutions are (1) to put better blocking and filtering tools in the hands of the users instead of concentrating more power into admins' hands; and (2) smaller instances instead of larger ones.
Part of why Evan P was funding #Identi.ca & #StatusNet mostly out of his own pocket was that he formerly had a VC-funded enterprise behind it, but advertising revenues were weak and users demanded its removal. There were some commercial customers and some individuals that paid, but probably not nearly enough.
He had looked at some #OStatus protocol enhancements that could have improved federation and reduced cost, but many of the component protocols were sponsored by companies like #Google, which was no longer interested in them.
What is this I hear about Mastodon dropping the ability to federate with #ostatus instances? I am gonna be pissed if I can't interact with half the people I want to interact with all of a sudden. #fediverse
@paulfree14 @freyo Not until 2.0. For now, "private" messages are still sent using standard #OStatus mechanisms and endpoints, so some implementations* don't know how to honor the privacy flag.
@usbhump Evan P's Status\.Net startup lost its funding. Around the same time, he was trying to get the developers of the underlying protocols that compose #OStatus to agree to make changes to their protocols to enable enhanced privacy. Among the organizations he was trying to motivate was Google, which had recently introduced #GPlus and was no long interested in the open web.
In a hurry to cut costs, he developed the #Pump.io software and protocol to be simpler to develop and cheaper to operate, and to offer some additional privacy built into the protocol. And also to be independent of the progress some of these protocols.
Pump was built with the idea that most federated networks would switch protocols to be compatible. That did not happen. But the hope is that its descendant #ActivityPub will unite the disparate networks.
@gargron Don't oversell AP. If you start to sound like a used car salesperson, people will become suspicious of your motives and the veracity of your claims.