I have been pretty offline due to ongoing postpartum health Stuff but just popping up to say how grateful I am to live in a time when croup is a minor scary instead of a terrifying and frequently deadly thing. Vaccines and dexamethasone are miracles.
Another miracle, he petted the spicy cat š today without grabbing her (much, anyway, lol š„¹ā¤ļø)
So, Bandwagon is great at broadcasting, and it works well as something like a Fediverse RSS reader, too.
But right now it sucks at DMs and notifications. Call it an artifact of my original newbie-ness with social networks.
Thatās getting fixed sooner than later - coincidentally with the work on the E2EE project. In the next month or so, this will be the UX for all private messages (encrypted or not)
@evan Well Jesus WAS from Palestine so...(shrugs)
@smallcircles @benpate I studied this last year, and @mallory worked on RFC 9505.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9505/
I think the hardware requirements for doing deep packet stuff are hard but not impossible. Don't forget, we use HTTPS.
If it were me, I'd download a list of the top 1000 fediverse servers from fedidb and block their DNS names and IP addresses. That'd probably cover 99% of user accounts.
So what are all the possible ways they can block things, I wonder now. Not an expert. Couldn't they simply block all of #fediverse based on content-type or other aspects of #ActivityPub network communication? Deep msg inspection, etc. They want to drag their population over to that state-controlled platform I forgot the name of.
How soon until Trump criticizes the Pope for worshipping the wrong Jesus
Trueā¦ We are slowly centralizing.
I believe real data portability would address this. LOLA portability would even enable āhot backupā servers in cases where your primary server goes down.
And, I think Mastodon is making some progress on their signup page that will reverse this trend.
Look at me doing all this comms for Mastodonā¦ Andy is going to owe me a beer šŗ
ATProto works differently, on another port I think. I think there's also some indirect ways to share data, although I don't know a lot about how ATProto works so I might be mistaken.