Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork (UPDATED)
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An opportunity to improve safety, the Mastodon ecosystem, and fediverse software development
  • FaceDeer
    13•5 months ago

    One thing that might be nice is if there could be a standard for user IDs that would allow multiple systems to work seamlessly together.

    You could have Mastodon continue to focus solely on being a completely open media aggregator and social network, but also have some other completely independent and secure private messaging system that uses the same user ID system. Then if you want to send a private message to someone who’s made a Mastodon post you can use that and it “just works.”

    Creating a universal user ID system that would work across all of this is challenging, of course.

    • poVoqEnglish
      17•5 months ago

      ActivityPub and XMPP can use the same ID system just fine. You can reach me on XMPP on the same ID as this Lemmy account.

      • @ScioEnglish
        3•5 months ago

        Could you please share some resources about how to reuse a web-finger ID for XMPP?

        • poVoqEnglish
          6•5 months ago

          Well, it’s not a webfinger ID, as XMPP is not web based, but XMPP IDs have the same form, so if you link the accounts in the background you end up with something that is functionally like that.