Convener: Cagan Mert Islek (@cagan@cmislek.me)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Charles Iliya Krempeaux (@reiver@mastodon.social)
• Jayne Samuel-Walker (@tcmuffin@toot.wales)
• Aaron Klemm (@aklemm@mastodon.social)
• Anthony Bosio (@abosio@fosstodon.org)
• Manton Reece manton.org (@manton@manton.org)
• Luis Quintanilla (https://lqdev.me)
• Johannes Ernst (@j12t@j12t.social, @j12t.org)
• Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle@mastodon.social)
• Scott Jenson (@scottjenson@social.coop)
• Damon (@damonoutlaw.xyz)
• Diego (https://plaz.social)
• Ryan Barrett (https://snarfed.org)

Notes

• Discussion about using your own Internet domain as your identity on the Fediverse.

• CAGAN talking about it as a user-experience issue.

• RYAN: there is a difference between your own domain being your identity versus logging in other places with your own domain. Rhese are different things.

• JOHANNES: Idea: we should start with the user documentation. That doesn’t talk about protocols etc. But focuses on what the user sees so it makes sense to them with minimal amount of learning.

• SCOTT & CHARLES: regular people don’t understand why they cannot use both Mastodon and Pixelfel and have the same Fediverse ID and have the posts go to the same place. Problem is Mastodon & Pixelfed are both front-ends and back-end, rather than front-ends that put data into the same back-end.

• CAGAN: using your identity server as OTP servers, too

• CHARLES: action plan?

• RYAN: step #1: make it so Fedi software supports people using their own domain

• Could we use Holos - https://holos.social

• CAGAN: Holos is a great implementation but most users don’t want local experience and prefer convenience.

• ActivityPub 2.0 working group is a good place to raise these questions.