Really interesting talk, even listened to the Q&A session, (link was in the comments). One question I'd ask about the kind of hyper local approach to social networks, a small neighborhood, like...
Really interesting talk, even listened to the Q&A session, (link was in the comments).
One question I'd ask about the kind of hyper local approach to social networks, a small neighborhood, like Kazemi's friend camp; how do you allow for personal growth? If the mechanic joins a mechanic focused camp, their identity is linked to the federation they're part of, can you move house? Is that easy, I know so little about how mastodon works.
My understanding as an on-and-off Mastodon user is that while you can't just uproot your entire account and transfer it to a new instance, you can set your old @ to redirect people to the account...
My understanding as an on-and-off Mastodon user is that while you can't just uproot your entire account and transfer it to a new instance, you can set your old @ to redirect people to the account you make on your new instance (and you can also come back later and turn that feature off if you want to return to the old one). It's not completely seamless, but it does help keep things from getting totally fragmented and lost across multiple instances.
My project allows for completely portable profiles by piggybacking on PGP as authentication system. To "create an account", you generate a key. To "create a profile", you publish your public key,...
My project allows for completely portable profiles by piggybacking on PGP as authentication system.
To "create an account", you generate a key. To "create a profile", you publish your public key, and the name inside the key becomes your username. The fingerprint is the identifier.
Each post is a signed message. You can download and port your entire profile via a zip file and even keep cloned copies on different servers.
All while maintaining full control of your account via the private key. This can be done securely by using off-browser PGP or seamlessly but less securely via in-browser OpenPGP.js.
Synchronizing different servers is as easy as synchronizing text files.
Really interesting talk, even listened to the Q&A session, (link was in the comments).
One question I'd ask about the kind of hyper local approach to social networks, a small neighborhood, like Kazemi's friend camp; how do you allow for personal growth? If the mechanic joins a mechanic focused camp, their identity is linked to the federation they're part of, can you move house? Is that easy, I know so little about how mastodon works.
My understanding as an on-and-off Mastodon user is that while you can't just uproot your entire account and transfer it to a new instance, you can set your old @ to redirect people to the account you make on your new instance (and you can also come back later and turn that feature off if you want to return to the old one). It's not completely seamless, but it does help keep things from getting totally fragmented and lost across multiple instances.
My project allows for completely portable profiles by piggybacking on PGP as authentication system.
To "create an account", you generate a key. To "create a profile", you publish your public key, and the name inside the key becomes your username. The fingerprint is the identifier.
Each post is a signed message. You can download and port your entire profile via a zip file and even keep cloned copies on different servers.
All while maintaining full control of your account via the private key. This can be done securely by using off-browser PGP or seamlessly but less securely via in-browser OpenPGP.js.
Synchronizing different servers is as easy as synchronizing text files.