I believe the fediverse and the indieweb need to be more inextricably linked. Imagine if you clicked a user profile and instead of taking you to their profile on the site with generic stats and posts from the user, it took you to their home page, where they can post blog updates and customize their site/profile to their hearts content.

There was some strange thing happening where two links were created. This one works for me, and the other one works now, but it didn’t at first. It’s strange, but one of the two should work for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDuOHMp0A

That link is now broken. Updated working link for the official broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

and the AP broadcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52eaHKtX0ks

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Yes, that is the general idea of the app, unifying all of your social interactions under one UI. It is foss, and I will soon be looking for contributors and issue reports, once I am ready to make the repo open to the public. I just have a few more foundations to set in place.

I have very briefly considered a browser extension, but could not figure out how to do it in a way that made sense. Perhaps it could be something that I do once the full version has been fleshed out, so I can figure out what features would make sense as an extension, vs a standalone browser/platform.

I had heard about the fediforum, and am definitely interested. Thanks for the reminder, I will look into registering.

Best place to reach me would be lovingisliving.bsky.social and @lovingisliving@indieweb.social. I am not sure when I will be ready to talk about the project overall, but I am open to it down the line when things are more solidified.

Thanks for all of the info, I will definitely check out the podcasts and conference!

Fair criticism, I understand the sentiment. I know there are a lot of problems with bluesky, and one might want to distance themselves from the platform as much as possible, but the reality is that a lot of people use it, and it is the primary form of communication they have that is capable of federation.

The method of federation is seamless, but notably, it is also completely optional. Just like the rest of the fediverse, if you don’t opt in to seeing the content from a bluesky user, you won’t. It is based on a bluesky identity, so if you just never link ones you will never connect to bluesky in any way.

Furthermore, the platform utilizes did:web, a w3c standard that allows the unification of identities under a single url based identity (I.e., did:web:quokka.au:lumpenproletariat) whose did document can list any number of aka identities for that user. That can include a bluesky identity, or it can be any fediverse identity such as pixelfed, piefed, Lemmy, etc. Bluesky is not an integral part of the project overall, it is just a first test at cross platform federation. Your federation choices are your own.

That first rig is the exact specs I have for building my first self hosting set up (with a GTX 970 or radeon r9 290x if I need a GPU, but I have yet to learn of a reason I would), so that’s good to know I’m starting out at a good level.

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It may be made with AI, but I’m not sure you can call it slop. It is an adaptation from an old anime, and people seem to very clearly understand the meaning/intention.

As far as I can tell, the top domain does not use AI by default, and you have to toggle it. Even the top level summary article is just a wikipedia article rather than an AI summary. It seems they experimented with the AI for a bit, and after feedback like that given above, adapted to the desires of the community. You can fully turn AI options off too, if even the sight of “search assist” or “duck.ai” buttons you can click is despicable to you.

Wow, people rage baiting about an issue that already has a fix. Why am I not surprised?

I would push back on the “most of the time” claim. I know people hate AI, for a variety of reasons, but saying it’s wrong most of the time is just flat out false.

Iroh was more of the p2p transport layer, but it is what facilitates the authentication through DID to the local vault. The work you linked is very relevant and will be definitely be of use!

Oh wow, this is exactly what I had been thinking of! Amazing! This should simplify the development process of this platform significantly. Do you know of any projects using this standard in their platforms?

Yes, that’s exactly it! The identities are linked to a URL that the user chooses, which hosts the DID document and all the identity records. I am working on getting the GitHub ready for public, I will notify you when it has been opened up!

This would definitely integrate with data migration tools of all sorts, it already works with meta and bluesky data export/access systems. Activitypub is next on the list. I’d like it to be as seamless as possible, something like an oAuth login. It would be especially useful in cases where users want to move to a totally local storage solution. The goal is not to replace existing platforms per se, but to give users the ability to have a complete locally available copy of their data at all times. Whether that data is mirrored or distributed elsewhere on the web is ultimately up to the user.

With regard to displaying defederated content, this would put that choice in the hands of the user as well. It should take the headache out of seeing the content you want to see, but should also obviously have some level of moderation and safety in place at a basic level.