Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork (privacy.thenexus.today)

submitted 5 months ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 92 points 5 months ago

If you want a super secure platform for private communication use Matrix for fucks sake, this is a media aggregator and social network.

Use the appropriate tools for the appropriate use-cases.

Everything on Mastodon gets publicly posted. Like, what even is this?

Security and accessibility are always at odds with each other.

You don't increase security and safety and also increase accessibility. No, by increasing security, you have decreased accessibility.

Security and accessibility are a balance. If it's easily accessible, it's not secure, if it's secure, it's not easily accessible.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 13 points 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.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 17 points 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.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you for pointing this out

[-] Scio@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

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

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 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.