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The install docs are on the wiki: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/wikis/Installing%...

Some background information on ActivityPub in Pleroma: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/activity-pub-in-pleroma/ https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

no, we really don't. Not every tool needs to be equipped for private discussions. ActivityPub and OStatus are used for Twitter-style communication. Those aren't high security commu…

it's really not worth it. If people want to exchange encrypted messages, they should use a proper tool for that.

In AP, messages are signed with http signatures ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures-09 ). OStatus has a similar mechanism called salmons, which are signed XM…

there's #social on freenode, although it's not very active. You might have more luck asking your questions on #pleroma on freenode (another Ostatus/AP server) or on the mastodon di…

messages are signed using http signatures ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures-09 )

In OStatus 'salmons' are messages sent from one server to another that contain posts. They are signed, so the receiving server knows if it can trust it. If person peter@example.com…

this doesn't make much sense. The very easy way to add AP-level privacy to ostatus was to just use a different salmon endpoint for private messages. This way, messages would never …

Yes, and this was known to the main developer. There were easy ways to make it at least private if the other server was trusted, but they chose to not implement them.

Privacy on the level of AP would have been very easy to add, by just using a different salmon endpoint for private messages. This was discussed at length back then, but Mastodon st…

sadly, the federated timeline is close to useless. I don't understand why it isn't the public timeline that's exposed.

This is something that was always a problem on Mastodon, but you can use other fediverse servers like https://social.sakamoto.gq/main/all to look at the network, they show things p…

If you are European you're probably part of the visa waiver program anyway.

I looked into this a while ago. Here are some notes I made: - https://git.heldscal.la/roger/the_wired/wiki/OStatus - https://git.heldscal.la/roger/the_wired/wiki/Salmon Hope it hel…

It depends on your use case. The overhead is much smaller than you probably think and the Erlang / Elixir programming model works extremely well for some cases, networking for exam…

How do you take photos that look like the old ones? They seem to have much more interesting colors.

That's what I meant, sorry for the confusion.

Thanks for the answer, but if you don't care about this use case, then I think I'll just use a different application that does. The things I don't like about Signal / Textsecure ar…

Just use Conversations. It can now use the same protocol and is the best XMPP client there is. I'm completely baffled that the Textsecure people insist on using the gapps package, …