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Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#61

Post by Spivak »

Kye wrote: post #34
Nadya wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Task: Send me a tweet on Twitter. Careful not to send it to any imposters. Challenge: Finding me on Twitter. For example, I am not @Nadya Extra Credit Challenge: Let's say I'm e-famous enough to have imposter accounts but not have a Twitter "verified" badge. Which Twitter account is the real me? And how do you know? Where Keybase comes in: On my HN profile itself you can find my signatures on Keybase. Keybase is not…

The obvious question is: "Isn't that what a domain is for?" And the answer is a lot of the New Famous don't have domains to list canonical social media profiles on. They exist solely on silos like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram with no way to connect to their fanbase without it.

Or just picking one of the accounts as the master and linking the others there.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

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Post by silvermast »

jeena wrote: post #18
zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

It would be cool to see everyone's Mastodon usernames/domains, I'm on my own self hosted instance where it's a bit more difficult to find other people. Mine is: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena

https://sunbeam.city/@silver

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#63

Post by silvermast »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

I wonder if the Mastodon community will pick up Keybase chat as the de facto chat option with this integration in place. Chat or private messaging has always been considered the weak link of the fediverse since it's easy for bad servers to mishandle "private" toots.

Please no. Centralization is always abused (eventually). Email + mastodon + IRC = happy little hackers.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#64

Post by mgoia »

Kye wrote: post #37
aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #36

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I understood atleast a couple of those words

Translation: every weird niche interest can have its own server for its community with its own rules, culture, and user experience while still communicating with other servers.

That is correct in theory. But in practice, other servers will block your server if the rules deviate from the mainstream rules, effectively isolating your server.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#65

Post by skybrian »

mirimir wrote: post #47
zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

> Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. Ummm. I mean, https://keybase.io/mirimir has nothing to do with my "real life identity".

That's a good point but on the other hand, when you have no reason to connect accounts, connecting them in this way might not be good opsec.

I guess this could be useful to make switching mastodon servers smoother.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#66

Post by aldoushuxley001 »

Kye wrote: post #37
aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understood atleast a couple of those words

Translation: every weird niche interest can have its own server for its community with its own rules, culture, and user experience while still communicating with other servers.

I mainly got hung up on these words: "We boop snoots instead of boosting toots". Are these mastadon-specific terms?

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#67

Post by jdormit »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

I wonder if the Mastodon community will pick up Keybase chat as the de facto chat option with this integration in place. Chat or private messaging has always been considered the weak link of the fediverse since it's easy for bad servers to mishandle "private" toots.

Why not Matrix? A federated chat protocol to go with a federated social media protocol.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#68

Post by dbasedweeb »

aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #66
Kye wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Translation: every weird niche interest can have its own server for its community with its own rules, culture, and user experience while still communicating with other servers.

I mainly got hung up on these words: "We boop snoots instead of boosting toots". Are these mastadon-specific terms?

I googled this, and was very very sorry that I did. Suffice it to say this terminology is specific to a subculture of people who dress up as animal mascots. Booping snoots apparently means touching the nose, I think? I also ran across something called “cub porn” and now I need a shower so hot it can melt glass.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#69

Post by bloopernova »

dcbadacd wrote: post #49
bloopernova wrote: post #38

Keybase is certainly interesting. Is it possible to link up to your stackoverflow identity yet? How are people using Keybase right now? I added several of my accounts but I'm especially interested in the GPG encryption/signing.

StackOverflow integration sounds really cool. Wish they added Discourse support as well - hard to prove I'm me on all of these Discourse instances.

Definitely!

Would be nice to add "extra" verification via Signal too, or Google Authenticator. Although GPG's public key, if already known, provides a good source for that.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#70

Post by silvermast »

aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #66
Kye wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Translation: every weird niche interest can have its own server for its community with its own rules, culture, and user experience while still communicating with other servers.

I mainly got hung up on these words: "We boop snoots instead of boosting toots". Are these mastadon-specific terms?

Toots are posts. Boosting is reposting so your followers can see it. Instance owners can change the terms to whatever cutesy terms they want, so this example has boost replaced with boop and toot replace with toot.

Also this is a FINE example of why niche communities need unbiased online infrastructure. A casual google-searcher may judge them by whatever google's AI decides is representative of the group, and choose not to deal with them at all.

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