Alex Gleason

I create Fediverse software that empowers people online.

I'm vegan btw.

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2023-03-05 01:06:33 UTC

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>investing time on these boards
Let me be clear, you're not doing ANYTHING unless you're building. Absolutely nothing at all. There are two ways to approach a problem. Either you BUILD, or you COMPLAIN at other people who are building. If you're not building, you can feel free to be comfortable and complacent with the way things are, and watch some TV or go for a walk outside. You are not free to make demands, and you are not entitled to anything. It's very simple.

2023-03-04 18:56:01 UTC

So, they built Medium on Nostr: https://blogstack.io
All that’s missing is the ability to zap an article.

2023-03-04 16:35:22 UTC

B-trees are a data structure crucial to making databases and therefore websites and the world work, but nobody knows what the B stands for.Bayer and McCreight never explained what, if anything, the B stands for: Boeing, balanced, between, broad, bushy, and Bayer have been suggested. McCreight has said that “the more you think about what the B in B-trees means, the better you understand B-trees.”https://youtu.be/5zo7BYoaqAA

2023-03-03 16:42:01 UTC

You know what Nostr doesn’t do? Put mentions in the text content.

2023-03-01 19:59:12 UTC

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#[0] #[1] #[2] Yeah more like cringe64

2023-02-28 18:11:43 UTC

#[0] #[1] LD signatures is also the thing that had “a major security vulnerability” in Mastodon and whose draft spec says “only a masochist would implement this” (paraphrased, but not joking)

2023-02-28 05:01:46 UTC

test

2023-02-27 23:48:46 UTC

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#[0] #[1] #[2] I’m about to bridge Likes/Emoji reacts, so there will be some test data to try against.

2023-02-27 23:28:06 UTC

#[0] #[1] #[2] I’m waiting for Gargron to publicly announce that he’s banned my bridge and encouraging all other Mastodon servers to do the same (he did that when I created 10minutepleroma).

2023-02-27 23:26:58 UTC

#[0] #[1] #[2] The nip05 could for sure be webfingerable.

2023-02-27 18:19:52 UTC

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#[0] #[1] #[2] Developing on the Fediverse is too hard. Nostr is 10x easier. You can integrate it into a blog like it’s nothing. This is the dream people had for Mastodon in the beginning, that we would federate everything. That dream is actually possible on Nostr. But a specification isn’t enough - the past few months the community has proved that Nostr is viable by developing real software for it. So yes, it’s more viable because it’s easier, and because it has a large developer base that is constantly growing. This is simply not seen on ActivityPub.

2023-02-27 17:41:49 UTC

There’s a limitation in Mastodon where if your avatar or banner is larger than 1MB it will drop them. Therefore some Mostr users won’t have avatars on Mastdodon.

2023-02-27 15:20:44 UTC

Here are known issues of the Mostr bridge (beta): https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr/-/issues
I need to do “real” work today, but I’ll kick it periodically if it goes down (that’s #3). Will fix these issues as soon as I can. Feel free to report any other bugs.

2023-02-27 14:17:08 UTC

benis

2023-02-27 06:15:55 UTC

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#[0] #[1] #[2] I could probably make NIP-05 lookups publish the actor to Nostr. I bet that would help.

2023-02-27 03:54:17 UTC

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I fixed a bug with NIP-05 identifiers not working correctly (cache issue). Code is deployed.

2023-02-27 02:08:28 UTC

Good evening, I’ve just deployed the first beta version of Mostr: a bridge between Nostr and the Fediverse.
More info here: https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-fediverse-nostr-bridge/
Source code: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr
The bridge is an ActivityPub server and Nostr client, written from the ground up in TypeScript with Deno. It generates RSA keypairs and pubkeys deterministically by combining the username with a SECRET_KEY. Sqlite is needed to store a reverse-lookup of Nostr to AP IDs, but otherwise it mostly works off the Web Cache API and the Nostr relay. I wrote nearly everything and gained lots of knowledge about cryptography.
Enjoy.