| 19 Jul 2025 |
Charles | i don't believe that | 15:46:08 |
K900 | There's people I trust a lot more to do protocol design for this | 15:46:15 |
K900 | (and it's mostly people who got burned by Matrix and know the issues with that) | 15:46:24 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | well nobody is, afaik | 15:46:37 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | i asked if they are seperate identities, and they say "they are, but you can migrate to another username rather easily, and you get to keep all your stuff (messages, room memberships, etc.)" | 15:46:59 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | * well nobody else actually is making a new protocol | 15:47:17 |
Charles | i think they have not thought about the problem very hard then | 15:47:20 |
Charles | or they have actual magic | 15:47:35 |
K900 | https://polyproto.org/docs/protocols/core#71-identity-migration | 15:47:44 |
K900 | They're doing the bluesky thing | 15:47:48 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | i mean olivia is in the discord too so i would assume they would have also thought of these same problems that matrix had | 15:47:49 |
K900 | Where you basically just tombstone your old account | 15:47:54 |
K900 | And it exists forever | 15:48:45 |
K900 | But it's also an entirely unnecessary dance that you have to do AND you have to rotate keys everywhere AND none of this would have been a problem had the identity been tied to the actual keys | 15:49:29 |
K900 | But good luck retrofitting that to Discord API I guess | 15:49:36 |
@magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | I will also point out, the network effect. Part of the reason why matrix is at all usable is because it has been around for ages, its federated and a lot of people are on it. Making a new protocol, while i get the reasons, will fragment things more, require new bridges to discord and yada yada | 15:53:38 |
@magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | So personally im not in support of new protocol efforts that much | 15:53:49 |
@magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | But i also dont know what im talking about, got no experience with this stuff. So ill leave it to more competent people | 15:54:16 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | sure, but these bridges will come if the protocl is good | 15:55:04 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | theoretically discord bots may work with not too many changes, since the api is compatible | 15:55:19 |
K900 | that's OK we'll fragment matrix real fucking soon | 15:55:28 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | this room probably isnt the best place for this discussion though | 15:55:32 |
@magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | In reply to @quadradical:federated.nexus theoretically discord bots may work with not too many changes, since the api is compatible The bridges will come if someone writes them and the best bridges happen to be from a company, specifically beeper | 15:55:57 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | does beeper make the mautrix bridges | 15:56:19 |
@magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | In reply to @quadradical:federated.nexus theoretically discord bots may work with not too many changes, since the api is compatible You need a app service like api, you cant do it with just a normal client api | 15:56:20 |
@magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | In reply to @quadradical:federated.nexus does beeper make the mautrix bridges Yes | 15:56:25 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | yeah, i think thats planned as well | 15:56:28 |
QuadRadical (Ping) | ah interesting | 15:56:31 |
@magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | So me being on matrix is directly attributed to beeper and element. Idk if i like it, but it is what it is... | 15:57:05 |
Cat | I will say that i kinda might be to blame for one wave of the thinking that went into creating a Fed API for spacebar even tho as far as i remember the work we are talking about comes way later and they as far as i remember had never heard of my ramblings on the topic. | 15:57:40 |