@polyproto

A refreshingly simple, decentralised, federated protocol. No more losing friends, followers or messages if your old homeserver sunsets. Feel free to migrate to another homeserver at any time, even if your old homeserver has shut down ages ago.

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights. Be gay, do crime!

Posting here: -ava: @star

Core Specification https://polyproto.org/docs/protocols/core?source=Fedi

Webbed Site https://polyproto.org?source=Fedi

Community Forum https://polyphony.zulipchat.com

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@freeplay Actually, yes, sort of! I only intended to stretch this vowel out for fun and as a vocal stim, but then I actually thought of you, and realized that this would then be a reference to you; so yes, it is canon!

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@PileOfOxides :polyprototrans: p

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@hsza Interesting, thank you for your feedback! Would you care to share some of the passages you didn't like in particular? I am really not a good writer for things like these, and part of the reason why the start page has been very... minimal until now, has been exactly "I don't know how to write stuff and I am not sure I can do a good job", so precise feedback would be much appreciated!

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You should check out our new and definitely much improved start page: polyproto.org

(try Ctrl+Shift+R if you still see the old page)

The start page has had the content on it thoroughly overhauled to be heaps more informative about the project, its goals, the protocols' features and its use cases. Do let us know what you think!

polyproto federation protocol @polyproto@amazonawaws.com

1mo

Merged two PRs today:

- Specifying fine-grained session management, tying in with OIDC, remaining compatible with that
- Implementing this exact thing in the polyproto SDK

Both of these have been in the works for about a month now! The merging of these keeps me optimistic about the December deadline, where we'd like to release a first prototype alpha of our polyproto home server, nicknamed sonata.

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polyproto federation protocol @polyproto@amazonawaws.com

1mo

The stickers are here! They are, however, translucent in a way that I had not anticipated when ordering them. This can be fine if you play around with that fact and use it to your advantage, but doesn't work well on non-white background surfaces. Will order more, better stickers soon!

polyproto federation protocol @polyproto@amazonawaws.com

1mo

@QueerMatters @polyphonychat Thank you for these amazingly kind words!

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1mo

We are fucking queer to our polyproto-core. Don't like it? Fuck off!

To everyone else: The happiest of pride months to you!

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polyproto federation protocol @polyproto@amazonawaws.com

1mo

1000 polyproto stickers arriving at my doorstep on Monday

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1mo

gloss over THIS!

(the specification has a glossary now)

technically, we already had one waaaayyyy back in the olden days, but that was a long time ago

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1mo

@hsza @algernon given how bad (as in featureless) their mobile apps are, you wouldn't even think that's the case. AI bros are usually the first to have agents stuff their software with 30000 features. but the ios app has largely been the same over the past year. you cannot even move messages, ban users... so much functionality is still missing there. i genuinely wonder where all the token spendage went? -@star

polyproto federation protocol @polyproto@amazonawaws.com

1mo

3 measurements, no cuts

polyproto federation protocol @polyproto@amazonawaws.com

1mo

@hsza @algernon I think it's actually better like this. Being led by a foundation instead of just a singular company makes the leadership behind Zulip more diverse in the sense that, hopefully, profit-making incentives will not be the #1 motive behind steering decisions. I think this sounds promising, especially since the people joining Anthropic have pledged to only be on the board of directors temporarily.