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Re: Mastodon and Keybase

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Post by bisby »

StavrosK wrote: post #59
JoshTriplett wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What has your experience been with self-hosting? I'd love to self-host a Mastodon instance that two-way mirrors my Twitter account and acts as a Twitter client (letting me pseudo-follow folks from Twitter). But in any case, I'd want to ensure that no content from people I follow gets mirrored/hosted on my own instance; the only content actually hosted on my own instance should be the content I post.

What do you mean? No content other than what your users generate will be hosted on your instance.

There is a concept of a federated timeline, which does get synced to your local instance. If you follow someone on a remote instance, that instance feeds content into your instance so it can be loaded.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#72

Post by eridius »

silvermast wrote: post #63
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.

Email is de-facto centralized at this point, with the overwhelming majority of email going through a small handful of giant providers. I don't remember the number anymore but some scary-high percentage of all email volume goes through Google servers.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#73

Post by StavrosK »

bisby wrote: post #71
StavrosK wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean? No content other than what your users generate will be hosted on your instance.

There is a concept of a federated timeline, which does get synced to your local instance. If you follow someone on a remote instance, that instance feeds content into your instance so it can be loaded.

It syncs the people you follow, right? So presumably the only additional content on your instance is content from the people you follow, which should generally be low-risk.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#74

Post by pault »

giggles_giggles wrote: post #57
pault wrote: post #43

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You'd rather opt in to global passive surveillance than deal with an inconvenient UX?

It's not inconvenient, it's broken. The issue I described above is not the only misbehavior to which I'm frequently subjected. Another example: messages are delayed, often. Recently I failed to reply to an urgent text about a medical diagnosis from my fiance due to Signal failing to push the message to my phone. This is unacceptable behavior from a critical application. Do I get on a soapbox about how surveillance is…

Yeesh, that is really terrible, I'm sorry to hear that. I understand your reasons, but in signal's defense it is a free service, which is pretty amazing considering the number of users they are able to support. I suppose reliability is a trade-off, but it would be nice if they offered a paid tier with better performance.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#75

Post by eridius »

eadmund wrote: post #35
Nadya wrote: post #19

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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…

> On my HN profile itself you can find my signatures on Keybase. … or your HN account could just link straight to your Twitter account. I don't get what Keybase adds here.

If someone hacks your HN account they could redirect the Twitter link elsewhere. If the only 2 accounts you have are HN and Twitter then Keybase doesn't solve that problem, but if you have more accounts elsewhere that are well-known, those extra accounts then prove that the HNTwitter connection is valid.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#76

Post by arthur_pryor »

dbasedweeb wrote: post #68
aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #66

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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.

fwiw, after reading this post, i searched "boop snoots" (with quotes) on both duckduckgo and google, and came up with nothing disturbing in the first page of results for either search. nothing that even indicated a connection to furry subculture, far as i could tell.

maybe other variations on that search come up with much more risque results?

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#77

Post by dbasedweeb »

arthur_pryor wrote: post #76
dbasedweeb wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

fwiw, after reading this post, i searched "boop snoots" (with quotes) on both duckduckgo and google, and came up with nothing disturbing in the first page of results for either search. nothing that even indicated a connection to furry subculture, far as i could tell. maybe other variations on that search come up with much more risque results?

I didn’t just google “boop snoots;” I googled that, googled “furries” and went down the rabbit hole a bit.

...A decision I now heartily regret. The two major things I found is that some people are very weird, and some other people hate the weird ones disproportionately considering their prevalence and general demeanor.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#79

Post by arthur_pryor »

giggles_giggles wrote: post #57
pault wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd rather opt in to global passive surveillance than deal with an inconvenient UX?

It's not inconvenient, it's broken. The issue I described above is not the only misbehavior to which I'm frequently subjected. Another example: messages are delayed, often. Recently I failed to reply to an urgent text about a medical diagnosis from my fiance due to Signal failing to push the message to my phone. This is unacceptable behavior from a critical application. Do I get on a soapbox about how surveillance is…

(note: not trying to say the medical diagnosis scenario you describe is less important than your contribution to getting the world off SMS, just spitballing how we can work towards timely updates in our current world and wean off SMS)

in the situation you describe, or any urgent situation where speed of communication is paramount, what about bombardment through multiple channels? like, i'll often leave my phone out of my pocket, and not pay super close attention to it. and if it lights up with one text message, or one signal message, or whatever, i might not look at it. but if it's buzzing like crazy, or someone starts calling, i'd pick it up.

i guess what i'm saying is, "urgent" to me means signal/text/call/call someone that might be around the person/whatever, until the message gets through. if something is urgent, i would not send it solely by text. i've certainly had SMS messages get dropped or delayed many many times over the years.

can you really only use one messaging app at a time? signal is my primary messaging app, but i don't really find it bothersome to use whatsapp and regular SMS also. different people i communicate with prefer different channels, and often the same person will use different channels with me depending on the purpose (e.g., my dad mostly chats with me by SMS, and most of my immediate family's group chat is on SMS, but when my dad is texting with me about some sensitive personal financial info, it's over signal).

also, i hope that whatever the urgent issue was, it was resolved in an ok way. like i said, not trying to shortchange the urgency of a medical emergency or second guess your decision making or frustration at the time.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#80

Post by arthur_pryor »

dbasedweeb wrote: post #77
arthur_pryor wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fwiw, after reading this post, i searched "boop snoots" (with quotes) on both duckduckgo and google, and came up with nothing disturbing in the first page of results for either search. nothing that even indicated a connection to furry subculture, far as i could tell. maybe other variations on that search come up with much more risque results?

I didn’t just google “boop snoots;” I googled that, googled “furries” and went down the rabbit hole a bit. ...A decision I now heartily regret. The two major things I found is that some people are very weird, and some other people hate the weird ones disproportionately considering their prevalence and general demeanor.

ah, yeah, well, sorry. maybe don't chase that rabbit like that next time?

also i find the "rabbit hole" metaphor and a username beginning with "dbased" to be pretty "on the nose" in the context of this thread (sorry, i couldn't resist any of that, and i only realized i ended with a pun after typing it out).

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