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Activitypub which, mastodon is based on, requires active cryptographic signature of everything. It's why there will probably never be a truly minimalistic masto
by superkuh 3y ago
Activitypub which, mastodon is based on, requires active cryptographic signature of everything. It's why there will probably never be a truly minimalistic mastodon client and they'll all be bloated javascript (or otherwise) applications and not minimalistic HTML elements doing POSTs/etc. This choice has made it irreducibly complex and heavy.
- kstrauser 3y agoThat makes no sense at all. Having written a Python client, I can confidently state it's completely wrong.
- superkuh 3y agoYes, this is the type of blinders on thinking that activitypub users sometimes have. Take them off and look at a real minimalistic protocol like webmention https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/ https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/ https://indieweb.org/Webmention https://indieweb.org/Webmention . It is possible to send and receive without any complex application at all. Also, it's weird that you say I'm "completely wrong" given the uncontroversial single claim I made about the cryptographic signing being what makes it complex. Since you wrote a client you have to know this is true even if you disagree with the 'complex' bit. Unless you just used a module that did it for you? https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/python.png https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/python.png