@dredmorbius I always forget about how beautifully-done Diaspora is.

@kick @dredmorbius wish they'd adopt AP already

@mewmew @dredmorbius There's an acronym that says the same thing that the negative visceral reaction this caused within me provoked me into wanting to say, but I will not say it.

@kick @dredmorbius

@mewmew @dredmorbius But anyway I'm indescribably glad that there's not a single chance in hell that Diaspora* will ever federate over ActivityPub.

@kick @dredmorbius because Diaspora* deserves better than what we have here? Or because you don't want to federate with a software that's stupid enough to put an asterisk in its name.

@mewmew @dredmorbius diaspora*'s security model is vastly better than ActivityPub's and federating over AP would mean that the safety and security of diaspora* users would be fucked over so they could interact with the likes of doxx-happy leftists and people who have never used 4chan yet have a weird fascination with the cartoon frog.

There's zero benefit for anyone currently using diaspora and everything to lose.

@kick @dredmorbius if you don't want people to see your posts in ActivityPub it's incredibly easy: make the post followers-only or direct and quarantine their instance.

@mewmew Not a solution, that's a band-aid (and a half-truth in itself). kaniini wrote a great post on it a few years ago:

https://blog.dereferenced.org/activitypub-the-worse-is-better-approach-to-federated-social-networking

(Plus your conception of followers-only posts seems wrong. fun thread: https://blob.cat/notice/9sfYEnmXQU3hEv6MiW )

@kick Kaniini is wrong in that thread. Her blog post makes a lot of assumptions I think are bad.