i’m the canvas guy (!canvas@toast.ooo)
Mastodon - @grant@grants.cafe
if using lemmy, it could automatically make this change
this would primarily be used by other fedi platforms to easily differentiate community & users
eg if i followed @sc07@group.toast.ooo on mastodon it would for sure follow !sc07@toast.ooo and not @sc07@toast.ooo (an account with the same identifier)
but if you search a community up on another fedi platform, it won’t always pick the community or the user (if they have the same name)
as far as the other platforms know, there’s one actor but points to two different accounts
afaik the webfinger spec doesn’t allow for multiple actors having the same identifier, like how lemmy does it (here’s what gets returned when a username matches a community and user)
how I was thinking about it the instance owners would pick the subdomain the communities would be placed on, everything would still route through the main host but external interactions (like following a community) would be routed through the subdomain
eg for blahaj.zone’s lemmy instance it could be setup as users sending in @lemmy.blahaj.zone and communities ending in @group.lemmy.blahaj.zone or something like that
not every community would have it’s own subdomain, no
community actors would just have the hostname part be a different domain eg
users:
@UserA@toast.ooo@UserB@toast.ooocommunities:
@CommunityA@group.toast.ooo@CommunityB@group.toast.ooohackliberty.org still links to it, although it returns a service unavailable, so it looks unmaintained
Also the most recent forum post is about how covid is a hoax
Like 10 minutes ago the project was nuked by the owner
This is actually planned, which is what intrigued me initially
turns out i linked the wrong page initially, here’s the page that fully describes the entire activitypub implementation they’re planning
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/activity_pub/index.html
Yeah, unfortunately limited to self hosted installs for now, but here’s the details for it
Is there a progress tracker for codeberg’s federation? I’d like to keep up with that
I’m aiming to get a gitlab install running with the experimental option of ActivityPub support and I would love to have that work with codebergs’
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, sometimes I get a couple people together to binge watch a bunch of movies by X actor and we rank all the movies they were in
I’m watching two specific issues on this repo that would be very helpful for that use case
I’ve gone for colors for my servers and omelette ingredients for my VMs
The decoys story I believe got animated by Qxir on YouTube
It’s recommended you keep the default port because as soon as your IP is known it takes less than 5 minutes to scan every port for an ssh port
I ran into this issue when writing the Canvas authentication thing
There is a standard to simplify authentication and identification across the entire web but it isn’t fully implemented everywhere
OAuth2 is the big name in this, it supplies authorized requests to access data from other companies and services
OpenID is related to OAuth2 but it only supplies identification in a standardized way. OpenID has mechanisms to announce that a specific domain has support for this and how to automatically register for it (removing the need to have a bunch of login buttons)
For Canvas 2024 I’m implementing drop in implementations for popular Fediverse software (including Lemmy)
Hopefully more fedi software implements OAuth2 or at least OpenID to vastly simplify authentication (and possibly replace “login with google”)
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If the instance requires verified emails the application won’t even show up to staff if it’s not verified
There’s two archive-friendly solutions Lemmy could take to solve this tho:
With federated services it’s generally a bad idea to fully delete an account, it’s better to mark the account as “deleted” so future requests can be notified of the deletion
This also prevents people from impersonating others
@userworks on all fediverse platforms, but!communitydoes noti was proposing for this to be a possible solution to make it work across all existing platforms w/o requiring all the other platforms to support lemmy’s system