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1. Trolli Schmittlauch ???? (schmittlauch@toot.matereal.eu)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2018 09:13:43 JST Trolli Schmittlauch ????

   • Christopher Lemmer Webber

   @cwebber I'm curious how subscribing between different AP server implementations is going to work UX-wise. Mastodon, Pleroma and peertube all work with the user @ domain webfinger scheme, but what identifiers shall be used for implementations lacking webfinger?

   • Trolli Schmittlauch ???? (schmittlauch@toot.matereal.eu)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2018 09:22:41 JST Trolli Schmittlauch ????

     • Christopher Lemmer Webber

     @cwebber I mean how shall that work UX wise?

     If I want to follow user foo at peertube instance bar, I can do that by just following @ foo @ bar from mastodon thanks to Webfinger.
     But how to do that for non-webfinger AP servers?
     If I'm not mistaken there's no canonical URI scheme for AP making this possible withput webfinger, is it?

   • Trolli Schmittlauch ???? (schmittlauch@toot.matereal.eu)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2018 09:28:23 JST Trolli Schmittlauch ????

     • Christopher Lemmer Webber

     @cwebber maybe I'm just too narrowly-minded or not creative enough, but the approach where the remote instance handles authentication using OAuth and entering credentials directly there creeps me out – too easy to confuse and impersonate the real instance.

     But let's see how things develop, hopefully I'm not the first one having to come up with solutions.

   • Trolli Schmittlauch ???? (schmittlauch@toot.matereal.eu)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2018 09:32:16 JST Trolli Schmittlauch ????

     • Christopher Lemmer Webber

     @cwebber It's the only thing I could come up with so far.
     But I also havent carefully read the AP spec so far, maybe I should do that first before speculating based on hearsay knowledge.

     It's just a potential rupture point for different instances and their possibility to subscribe to each other. AFAIK Mastodon currently only supports the webfinger UX flow