guusdk, 20 days ago

@jcbrand want one on ignite's?

jcbrand, 19 days ago

@guusdk I appreciate the offer thanks. Have you guys considered implementing the XMPP bridge? That would be awesome!

guusdk, 19 days ago

@jcbrand we have not considered it before, but I'm open. @claude is that something that you're interested in trying?

claude, 19 days ago

@guusdk @jcbrand
Openfire/XMPP+mastodon would be a very interesting step ahead. It can be a game changer in social networks landscape bringing decentralized fediverse
chat, social network and even P2P VidCalls. But doing that needs fundings and quite a big effort. Unless no business angel or investor is found to cover Dev, Infra it will not happen. Till now mastodon does not bring me any revenue, only charges.
I am interested but serious sponsor/investor for project is needed first. Anyone ?

jcbrand, 18 days ago

@claude @guusdk

Are you aware of the work from @Goffi ?

He recieved funding and created an AP/XMPP bridge. AFAIK it's still rough around the edges, but it exists.

guusdk, 17 days ago

@jcbrand @claude @Goffi You're talking about https://libervia.org/ right? I've not used it before. I was under the impression that it's a self-contained solution, not so much a headless bridge to Mastodon. I'm not saying that that's bad - I'm just trying to figure out exactly what we'd be talking about. :)

Goffi, 17 days ago

@guusdk @jcbrand @claude

The #ActivityPub gateway is a server component that can work with any #XMPP server or client, not only #Libervia .

About the status, it's working. I have 2 more things to do before the release:

• HTTP signature for GET requests (it's only done for POST requests right now), which will make it compatible with secure mode of other implementations.

• Use per-user encryption keys. For now it's one for the whole instance.

Both things are easy to do, I just need some time.

jcbrand, 17 days ago

@Goffi @guusdk @claude

Thanks Goffi.

If there's an instance that has this gateway enabled and where I can create an account, then I'll add support for the necessary microblogging XEPs to Converse so that I can use it as my client.

Goffi, 17 days ago

@jcbrand @guusdk @claude

Unfortunately not yet, but it's planed.

My current AV grant is consuming all my time, making it challenging to progress on other topics.

Feel free to work on microblogging XEPs: as long as they're compatible with #Movim and #Libervia - it will with the gateway, at least for body. Reactions and likes require XEP-0470, not yet implemented in Movim.

AP DMs are converted to #XMPP chat messages, so they should work with Converse and other clients out of the box.

Goffi, 17 days ago

@jcbrand @guusdk @claude Note that I have also relatively short term plans to make a way to easily install the gateway, probably via a Docker image and a getting started page.