I forgot, @zatnosk, you can't see the other comments on this thread. Here's what Mike just said:
"I'm currently running zot, diaspora, ostatus, and activitypub. There was a problem a few days ago because LetsEncrypt rewrote my .well-known/.htaccess file in an incompatible way and broke webfinger for a few days before I discovered what they did, but that should be sorted. "
I'm currently running zot, diaspora, ostatus, and activitypub. There was a problem a few days ago because LetsEncrypt rewrote my .well-known/.htaccess file in an incompatible way and broke webfinger for a few days before I discovered what they did, but that should be sorted.
@zatnosk it is entirely possible that Mike doesn't have federation protocol plugins enabled on his main channel. For the time being, his profile may be Zot-only.
@dsh Ostatus has some rudimentary scaffolding for nomadic identities that show they flirted with it once, but it obviously wasn't expanded on. I intend to develop it at some point, but health has made my development time scarce.
Somewhat unrelated; I want to follow Mike, but I can't seem to find him (with his recent posts) from my Diaspora instance (datataffel.dk), and it doesn't look like he's publishing on ostatus?
I will be bringing Zot nomadic identity to ActivityPub - just as I brought it to Diaspora and OStatus (you probably didn't know that). Other systems/platforms can choose to ignore it (as they currently do), but everything they require to process and deal with nomadic identity will be there for them to consume if they ever wish to join us in the 21st century.
Important reminder to podmins: This new federation protocol is incompatible with versions of diaspora* older than 0.6.3.0. If you are still running an earlier version, your server will no longer be able to fully communicate with servers running the latest software.
There are numerous improvements that made it into this release, some of which have been in development or quite some time.
Two immediate things jump out at me:
Support for Account Migrations - this has been under investigation for quite some time, I will have to test it out when I can.
New federation protocol - it's crazy to think that we'd get to this one day. I think the situation with Diaspora's federation architecture may actually be greatly improving. The whole system's been cleaned up, federation's in a gem, and now the protocol functionality is being versioned and extended.
A big shout-out to Benjamin Neff and Comrade Senya, who have dedicated themselves to a lot of grueling work in improving the federation system and adding in functionality for account migration.
I'm also really happy about the functionality improvements (mentions in comments!) and the inclusion of a formatting UI will likely make the interface a little more accessible for some people.
All of that stuff sounds like Austin on Barton Springs Rd. Except Shady Grove is a restaurant, and I don't know if anyone threw their fryer into the pool.