Notices by silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social), page 36

@tadano @phoenix @compound Well, I obviously prefer Mitra UI, but I think Soapbox is also cool, and it may be possible to use it (or its forks) with Mitra backend (which implements a subset of Mastodon APIs).

@tadano Have you seen my comment? https://mitra.social/objects/018f8822-290c-25f0-625d-bb11755d2e76

Your instance was offline, so it might not have arrived.

@laxla Something like that exists in Streams:

>Lists : Sometimes referred to as circles or aspects, this lets you define your own groups of related friends and communicate with them as a private group.

As far as I know, they are targetable collections, similar to followers collection.

@tallship @julian

>Here you go bro: Socialhome post w/inline images.

It is a Note. I think this is a good example of a post which is best viewed on the original site.

@Tadano Added a documentation page https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra/src/branch/main/docs/relays.md

@tadano The emoji needs to be already present on your server (usually it happens when you receive a post from another server containing emojis). This command adds it to your local emoji collection (AFAIK Pleroma calls that "stealing").

I should probably change the name of the command to avoid confusion.

@raphael Regarding your other post,

>...a different approach for ActivityPub software, putting the client at the center of everything and making the servers just specialized relays of ActivityStream messages

This is possible with FEP-ef61. Portable messages are self-authenticating, so it doesn't matter where they are generated, on the server or on the client.

However, I think the traditional (server-centered) approach also has its merits. There is a place for both in Fediverse

https://mastodon.communick.com/users/raphael/statuses/112453788068689232

@lain The idea of putting super-intelligent beings in charge of everything is certainly not foreign for the former group.

@raphael Yes, that's correct.

The proposed data portability extension is based on a liberal interpretation of this part of the spec.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md

It defines a new URL type where "authority" part is a DID, not a DNS name:

@Tadano Yes, relays are the way to go. Mitra doesn't have any special tooling for working with relays, but you can create a separate accounts and follow relays from there (they should show up in search results as regular accounts). That will populate your federated timeline.

Also this service is super useful: https://relay.fedi.buzz
With it you can follow hashtags

@tallship I don't know. Could you provide an example of such post?

@julian

@julian

+1

Article = rich content, embedded images, videos, and other media.

But how embedded images should be treated by implementations that use media cache? Are they expected to rewrite src attributes in images?

@jupiter_rowland @renchap @mikedev

@julian I'm not using context, but I think FEP-7888 is great and I want to implement it in the future. Haven't decided yet on what exactly this collection should contain. Slightly in favor of collection of activities (as in Streams / Conversation Containers).

@trwnh @mikedev

@ntnsndr By algorithmic governance I mean DAOs and other things Vitalik and co have been tinkering with. They didn't understand that all software is owned and maintained by someone, and as a result, Ethereum has been completely co-opted. This post was written in 2021, and there was still hope. Today it is dying, and no amount of tinkering can save it.
This destiny awaits all projects with weak leaders.

@lain @strypey @Hyolobrika @teknomunk @Sarosa

@kayaba @kycnotme My suggestion for kycnot.me is to split peer to peer category into two distinct categories: peer to peer trading (like LocalMonero) and peer to peer networking (like Bisq, and in the future, Serai).

True decentralization requires much more effort, and needs to be proven. This way only the best of the best will be rewarded with 10/10 rating.

@kayaba @kycnotme Do you think orders are stored in something similar to a mempool?

@kycnotme I think the rating should be lower (currently it has 10), but I'm not sure about the exact number.

I did investigate it further and had a look at their code:

https://github.com/tecnovert/basicswap

The readme says it's in beta, so it is possible that some features have not been implemented yet (the website, however, presents BasicSwap as a finished product). I was able to locate code that does BTC-XMR atomic swaps, and @kayaba suggested that their implementation could be real. I didn't find atomic swap implementations for other currencies listed on the website.
The orders are sent to a local Particl node. It's a fork of Bitcoin Core with various additions, so the P2P network is probably real (Bitcoin Core provides that), but it is not clear how decentralized it is.

The Particl blockchain is a PoS chain powered by the PART token, which lost 99.48% of its value since ATH. I think it is reasonable to assume that the people behind this project are the only ones who hold significant amounts of coins, because everyone else had quit long time ago. And since it's PoS, this means they have total control over the chain, and in my view that makes it equivalent to a single server.

I can't find any information about past security incidents, apart from this strange github post talking about an inflation bug: https://github.com/particl/ccs-proposals/pull/5

Particl-Core and most of BasicSwap were developed by a single person.

So my conclusion is that foundations for "Privacy-First Cross-Chain DEX" might be present, but the product is presented in a misleading way, not properly documented, and not independently audited. Furthermore, the market valuation of PART token indicates an extremely low trust in it, which might have caused by past incidents.

@Hyolobrika @Pawlicker He likes his bitcoin bags

@Hyolobrika @lain @strypey @Sarosa The idea of algorithmic governance is flawed. And he was wrong in his conclusions, because it can not be fixed by adding more cryptography.
Blockchains are good for one thing: payments. That's all.

@Pawlicker What a loser. Isolating himself in his bitclown echo chamber while fediverse is conquering the internets.