Important progress has been made regarding bringing MLS end-to-end encryption to the ActivityPub protocol, with developers already building implementations and providing feedback to a future version of the protocol spec.

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[–] 92 points 7 months ago (51 children)

I thought we already had Matrix

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  • [–] 96 points 7 months ago (28 children)

    We do.

    This is for activitypub DMs.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (27 children)

    That's what I mean.
    The headline is a lie.

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  • [–] 85 points 7 months ago (15 children)

    If I say tacos coming soon, it doesn't mean I invented tacos, just that there will be new tacos I guess

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  • [–] 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I heard this is the line for tacos.

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  • [+] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Then I charge you with naming you favorite genre at least. Barbacoa?

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    But we already have tacos.
    If you say "Tacos are coming soon". And we already have tacos. I'd say "What do you mean? Tacos are already here. Do we need more tacos?"

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Do you just ask if we need more tacos? The answer is always yes... Where is your insatiable hunger?

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    Tacos become pizza toppings. Full size tacos, on top of your pizza.

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  • Now that's the insatiable appetite I know. No tacos, no sandwich, no cheese infested bread substances like pizza left behind. I will hate my stomach as it fattens, but so long will it reign. A Pad Thai cheeseburger might kill a man,but it only has one bad quality. Availability

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You cannot, two totally different protocols

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, there's nothing technically stopping one app supporting both protocols natively, especially since Lemmy already includes a field for people's profiles to link their Matrix ID. Though to my knowledge none do it yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, in the same way there is nothing stopping Lemmy from using ATProto. The problem is all competing standards and what the developer chooses to use.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Perhaps, but I'm describing something slightly different. Your description is basically "one platform supporting two protocols that basically do the same thing". I'm talking more about "one app that has two separate-but-related bits of functionality, each using the more appropriate protocol for that job".

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 7 months ago

    It's not, the demo video actually shows that being one such use case. There's nothing stopping anyone from writing a chat service in ActivityPub. But this can also apply to statuses, media, all kinds of other stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    No it's not. Matrix isn't part of the Fediverse. It doesn't use ActivityPub and there is no interop with any other Fediverse service.

    That doesn't make Matrix bad, it just makes it it's own thing.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (19 children)

    Matrix is decentralized but its not federating in a way like activity pub is doing

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    ActivityPub isn't the only way to federate.
    Matrix is federating the same way email does. Anyone can spin up their own server. And if they want anyone can spin up their own software. That's what federation is. Different servers agreeing on how to communicate with each other.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    What??? I thought being part of Federation meant being part of the WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION!

    OOOOH YEAH, SEE I'M ALWAYS THINKIN THINKIN THINKIN, YEAH. AND WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE, WE DO THING IN THE RING! DIG IT! THE TOWER OF POWER TOO SWEET TO BE SOUR, FUNKY LIKE A MONKEY! OOOOOOH YEEEAAAHHHH!!!!

    Pomp and circumstance plays over the house speakers

    ELIZABETH!!!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    No that's decentralization, federating is when you can share the info natively outside the platform.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    share the info natively outside the platform.

    I'm not even sure that makes sense.
    Federating is based on protocols not platforms. And what does it mean to share natively if not using the protocol?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    What do you mean?

    And what benefit justifies yet another standard?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    In this day and age we need as many open source e2e encrypted alternatives as possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Matrix is a protocol, not an “App”. We would all benefit if everyone stopped doing their own thing, and started to push stuff for Matrix.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Huh? ActivityPub is also a protocol, now with this feature, why does that extra feature stop people from using Matrix?

    Matrix has a list of specs, and ActivityPub has a different list, there may be some overlap but what's the problem here?

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Matrix does not connect natively to discord as an example, every user of a matrix protocol is still within matrix

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