What do we think about libravatar? Is it any good? And most importantly, is it good privacy-wise?

#libravatar #foss

Is Libravatar in use/active/and so on? 🤔 Thinking we need more non-us cloud alternatives (or at least that's what I was looking for)...

Are there other alternatives to Gravatar?

#avatar #gravatar #libravatar #devops #programming #webdev #web

Guten Morgen, es ist 2. #DiDay. Diesmal bin ich von #gravatar zu #libravatar gewechselt. #DUTgemacht und viel Spaß beim Lesen!

https://blog.jakobs.systems/micro/20260201-did/

#BigTech #DiDit #Opensource #digitalindependenceday

#TIL that you can use #Libravatar instead of Gravatar with a community-hosted GitLab service;

https://docs.gitlab.com/administration/libravatar/

#Gravatar #GitLab #avatars #decentralisation #OpenProtocols

Using Libravatar/Gravatar for your profile in Planet GNOME

Now that the new planet.gnome.org website is live, we have added Libravatar and Gravatar support. Instead of having the Planet website host user images itself, we are giving members the choice to use profile images/avatars from these services.

If you are interested in updating your profile picture, check out the instructions at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/planet.gnome.org#adding-an-avatar and file an issue. Extra points if you do a merge-request! 🙂

The old hackergotchis are an important part of our community’s history, so I set up a static website to host the old files. Feel free to file an issue if you want yours taken down from there.

https://feborg.es/avatar-planet-gnome/

```
root ${avatars}
try_files {path}.jpg =404
```

If /avatars/{path}.jpg does not exist, we get the expected 404. Great.

If it does, instead of the file, we get an empty 200 response. This is because `try_files` only rewrites the request. It still needs a `file_server` directive, or else it falls through to the default response: an empty 200.

Updated Libravatar implementation on Caddy and NixOS:

https://rossabaker.com/configs/libravatar/

#Caddy #NixOS #Libravatar

Talk about #DDFON (Decentralized, Distributed, Federated, Open, Network) (friendly name: #MycelialWeb), the latest iteration of #Libravatar is now using a federated software.

https://wiki.libravatar.org

I think it has been that way after the service was transferred to a new team.

Having said that… what if #ActivityPub or at least the various platforms connected to the #Fediverse mycelium network, use Libravatar?

For this to work though, Libravatar would have to be updated with a new verification process to handle the non-email ActivityPub webfinger. (And I'm not sure if there are other stuff that has to be updated/added.)

If my memory serves me right, #Friendica and #Hubzilla are already doing this, although as a plugin the admin can toggle (but based on the email address attached to the account).

#BringDownTheWalls #BuildBridges