Notices by Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)

@silverpill does Mitra support OIDC logins?

In order to facilitate seamless login into a Mitra instance via Weird-app, Mitra needs to support logins via Rauthy (OIDC backend of Weird): https://github.com/sebadob/rauthy

We would like to run an #activitypub instance as part of the #weirdone platform, same as the excellent #omglol by @prami

This instance will be operated as a paid extension of Weird, costing $10/yr ($20/yr after beta).

All member subscriptions will go entirely to the AP instance hosters, which should be a team of at least 2-3 sysadmins & moderators tending to the instance part-time. This is expected to be a fairly low-volume instance since all members are paid (to begin with).

#moderation

The instance type we’d like to host is most likely gonna be @mitra #mitra

..specifically because it supports nomadic identity, so neither our instance nor our users are locked in stasis; Weird net can migrate to a different AP instance in the future if necessary, and instance tenants can migrate to any other instance that supports Nomadic Identity (FEP-ae97), e.g. with:

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/fep-ae97-client

It’s pretty easy to self-host; the real challenge is instance governance and moderation.

@silverpill speaking of DID methods, I ran into another promising one recently: https://fedid.me/about/

@bnewbold.net @bnewbold you’re looking for @arcanicanis

How #Lemmy could interop with #Mastodon, as imagined in Frontpage + Bluesky:

“When you post on Fp, we propose that a mirror post will also be created in your Bluesky account. When you comment on Frontpage, we propose that a mirror reply will be created in your Bluesky account.

Conversely, when you reply to one of these mirrored posts in Bluesky - we will show it as a reply in Frontpage.

Additionally, Bluesky likes will be translated to Frontpage votes and vice versa.”

https://lemmy.world/post/19654283

“Here I posted a link to Fp, it was automatically reposted to my Bluesky profile.

Another left a comment on Frontpage, that I also replied to. These were translated to a thread on Bluesky.

I voted the reply on Frontpage, this vote translated to a like on Bluesky.

Now consider another user noticed this bsky thread, and left a reply to one of these comments from the Bluesky app.

We can show this reply inside of Fp; now the discourse stays together with all of its context!”

#Lemmy #Mastodon

From @bnewbold:

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3kwzl7tye6u2y

A relay of the entire Bluesky network can be run for $153/month. That’s mighty impressive!

Many #ActivityPub hosters are paying this amount for member counts in the low thousands.

https://blog.erlend.sh/evergreen-content-gardens

Social bookmarking is a novel use case for #ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything.

Things like #Bookwyrm are cool, but it’s not what I want. I just wanna link the thing. Books, films, podcasts, articles, songs.., they’re all just resource recommendations which can be encapsulated by links.

Thanks to @raffomania and @eb for the indirect prompts leading to this article mixing their ideas with my own.

@silverpill that’s an interesting one.

@Revertron is the PoW approach in Alfis unlikely to change?

@silverpill sure, but that doesn’t make it vendor-locked. If others are free to host their own deployments, there’s no lock-in there.

@silverpill what makes it vendor-locked?

@silverpill while I’m clueless about this stuff at the low level, it seems to me like did-plc is Good Enough for a starting point that works *today*.

It is transitory by design, so whichever next-stage direction the Bluesky devs take it in can be diverged from if it doesn’t align with the requirements for #NomadicIdentity in the fediverse.

I’m afraid that if we wait around another year++ for the perfect solution to come along, Good Enough alternatives will be deeply entrenched by that time.

There’s a major convergence of OAuth/OIDC support across #fediverse applications, #Matrix is going all-in on it as its root default, and other social web protocols are tagging along as well.

Like the separation of church and state, it seems prudent to keep the management of our digital identities separate from our social network servers.

Domain-based OIDC accounts, especially when self-hosted, serve the function of a minimum-viable #nomadicidentity

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/autonomous-identity-for-the-pluriverse-based-on-oauth-oidc/3675?u=erlend_sh

A simple #ActivityPub <-> #Bluesky interop MVP I don’t see mentioned a lot is the ability to fully oEmbed an apub/atproto post on its opposite platform. This would allow for a kind of quote-posting across networks.

If that could somehow be combined with a WebMention to inform me that my apub post has been shared elsewhere and vice versa, we’d have significantly greater cross-border connectivity than the status quo.

A Bluesky dev has responded with interest:

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1716#discussioncomment-7261438

/microblogmemes is a great #lemmy community, but there’s something really off about sharing a post from one #fediverse app to another via a screenshot.

Groups support in #Mastodon will start an exciting new chapter in this #interoperability story.

https://blog.erlend.sh/group-convergence

@silverpill I suggest you start tagging these with #rust and #ActivityPub ;)

https://blog.erlend.sh/transitioning-r-rust-to-the-threadiverse

Three months ago I submitted a post to the #Rust sub-reddit called 'Building a better /r/rust together' wherein I hailed #Lemmy as a fitting successor.

Today we have 3 moderately active Rust spaces on the threadiverse. To counteract community fragmentation we need the ability for #ActivityPub groups (Lemmy community or #Kbin magazine) to follow other groups.

Help needed from fedi-curious Rust developer out there: Implement FEP-d36d for Lemmy!

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d36d-sharing-content-across-federated-forums/3366

Several years in the making, GitLab is now very actively implementing #ActivityPub! 🙌

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

The end-goal is to support AP for merge requests (aka pull requests), meaning git.alice.dev can send a merge request to gitlab.com/Bob/project.git

First bite-sized todo on the implementation path there is ‘subscribe to project releases’.

Smart move by #GitLab; through ActivityPub they’re getting a distributed version of GitHub’s social layer.

@fediversenews #fediverse #GitHub #git

https://blog.erlend.sh/juicy-clients

If I'm peeking into an #ActivityPub instance, show me its preferred UI form.

..on mastodon.social, show me the #Mastodon
UI.
..on calckey.social, show me the #Calckey UI
..on bookwyrm.social, show me the #Bookwyrm UI.
..on mitra.social, show me the #Mitra UI.
..on pixelfed.social, show me the #Pixelfed UI.
(..on bluesky.social, show me the #Bluesky UI.)

@elk is currently furthest along on the track to becoming a juicy client. Gobo by @iDPI_UMass is also exciting!

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