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RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116359048796181736

Could be potentially nice for fediverse server testing, as more implementations make the jump to final RFC 9421 HTTP signatures.

On the flip side, ever more complex curl invocations (here: Accept header plus signature fields plus key file, presumably) suggest use of more specialized CLI tools, such as provided by @fedify, or at least scripts/aliases.

Speaking of RFC 9421, which notable fediverse implementations can't handle it yet? Anyone keeping track?

#ActivityPub #FediDev #RFC9421

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Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻2d ago

Hi @julian @fedify,
#complexity benefits the big players. That's huge harm to diverse #federation. Challenge it, refuse it, stop it.

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Evan Prodromou 1d ago

@mro @julian @fedify everyone who wants to can park on draft-cavage-12 indefinitely. As long as others double-knock, you'll be fine. Then, when everyone else has converted, switch to RFC 9421 with no detection or fallback. That keep things simple.

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Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻1d ago

Hi @evan
regarding 'keeps things simple' - have you looked into #RFC9421?
(Looking at you, Innerlist https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9421)

All this #complexity for what benefit?

@julian @fedify

P.S.: I don't consider #ActivityPub to be simple in the first place, so hard to keep it simple that way.

Information on RFC 9421 » RFC Editor

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🫧 socialcoding..1d ago

@mro @evan @julian @fedify

P.P.S. My latest blog post about #ActivityPub fediverse contains a "Back to (potentially radical) simplicity" call-to-reflection (among other subject matters) .. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116368803389082089

Solution is.. difficult, but simple, yet not easy. 😝

#SX #SocialCoding #ParadoxOfEmergence

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Evan Prodromou

@smallcircles @mro @julian @fedify I'm glad you enjoy thinking through these issues. Good luck with your blog post!

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🫧 socialcoding..1d ago

@evan @mro @julian @fedify

Blog post is done already 😃 and you and @silverpill the first ones I made reference to :)

Here's the announcement, and be sure to fill in the #poll if you want.. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016