Bringing personal domains with provider approach, addressing portability
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.