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@HerraBRE though I see now that you complained about #Mastodon not respecting the Accept: header... Yeah, that's obviously a bad bug and should be reported as such.
Unfortunately I can't create or discuss Mastodon issues as I'm not a customer with #GitHub...
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@dvs Maybe it should explain that #Mastodon is part of a network using the !OStatus protocol...
One reason is that it's easier to explain "instances". Maybe someone starts an instance of #Mastodon financed _with_ advertisement, then your FAQ answer here will be incorrect: http://mastoguide.info/Pages/funding.html
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@HerraBRE #Mastodon works with !GNUsocial as it is pretty well. There were some issues that @gargron raised with me, some of which I believe I fixed and some that I couldn't really figure out (some profile avatar update thing for example?)
Regarding RFC7033 (#WebFinger) it - since standardisation - only _requires_ a JRD (application/jrd+json). application/xrd+xml is just a bonus from !GNUsocial (voluntary according to spec).
The host-meta XRD is XML that because it was standardised before people who reinvent everything (JSON fanpeeps) started developing standards: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6415
But since JRD and XRD are easily translatable between each other it doesn't really matter. And while #Mastodon doesn't use it, the /.well-known/host-meta endpoint is good for discovery unrelated to profiles, such as #OAuth endpoints etc. (so clients can auto-configure them).
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@Elizafox @Gargron Delete functionality for profiles ought to be _profile_ deletion as suggested in that thread. It would be up to each federated remote instance whether to delete the profile and/or data.
The possibility to delete an account's data should be obvious. But essentially that could be accomplished by just having the user edit their profile data, deleting avatar removing the given e-mail address and such.
Given that the user can already do all those things (I assume in #Mastodon too), I don't see any point in rushing a "profile delete" functionality.
This discussion is also relevant to !fediverse and !GNUsocial (where delete functionality is disabled by default due to account hackability and no delay in deletion).
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@kevinmarks Oh right, maybe #Mastodon doesn't publish public timelines as feeds yet without authorization. It's been requested by some of the new users though, and i've previously expressed its usefulness to @Gargron before. So my hopes are that it'll show up at least in the form of a public Atom feed via some API, if not also as HTML.
I think the argument against having it as HTML was that "the expectancy from users is that not all communication is immediately public" or something (i.e. it's all public but you'd have to crawl to get the data, which I've expressed should be called privacy through obscurity)
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@pan Well, you're reasonably private if you use Tor and only want to protect your original identity. So you have a perfect privacy setup for leaking sensitive information in a broadcast fashion to subscribers since (afaik) all !ostatus federating instances allow Tor connections.
But no, neither !GNUsocial nor #Mastodon have any real privacy for hiding content.
There's always that question about which tool to use for what purpose: What's your threat model?
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@rysiek @lambadalambda My hope is that #FOAF gets implemented in #Mastodon. Then any FOAF crawler can generate a good overview of the social graph.
(I can't add issues or requests since I'm not a customer with #GitHub, so cc: @gargron)
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#Mastodon added: http://sobac.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_Free_Software_Social_Media_platforms Could really use some help with the Connectivity Matrix, tho.
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That wiki page is out-of-date; doesn't even list #Mastodon. Assistance in wiki maintenance gratefully appreciated! Volunteers please line up to the left...
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Anybody want to run a #finnish #mastodon instance? I have mastodontti.fi for that purpose.
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@aral Reasonably the public timeline should be just an Atom feed as any other for consumption in ordinary feed readers. I hope @gargron does this too, but #Mastodon has a somewhat privacy-through-obscurity perspective on what to make easily available and what you have to script together to get a full picture of.
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@moonman It is horrible, I agree. There's a reason I don't say I'm a !GNUsocial developer, but rather just a maintainer. I want nothing more than to see the codebase get rewritten from scratch in a sensible language.
Unfortunately, given the great body of work that the codebase is, rewriting and including all functionality that comes along with it takes a long, long time. #Mastodon's been at it for about a year now and still doesn't have, afaik: #FOAF, groups, various small helpful markup/header treats.
But they're getting there I guess. Unfortunately I'm allergic to Ruby.
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Hooray for everyone in the !fediverse using !fs such as !GNUsocial or #Mastodon (today is #ilovefs day)
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"gnusocial" absolutely supports and encourages #Mastodon and has nothing to do with the case you're describing.
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Going to try #mastodon
Already impressed with good documentation and clean, user-friendfly interface :-) !fediverse FTW :-)
P.S My account is at https://mastodon.social/users/elgee
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@silverwizard Actually, both the #Mastodon software and !GNUsocial software use the #OStatus protocol, as do #Diaspora, #Friendica, #Hubzilla and others, which we on !GNUsocial call the !Fediverse (apparently folks on Friendica have another name for that federated network)
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I just want to post that I think @gargron is doing amazing work with #Mastodon and I'm glad it expands the !fediverse!
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@gargron to steal all the awesome clients that will be created for #Mastodon
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@gargron so next up for me is to make a #Mastodon compatible client API? .P
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The reply may be a little abrupt, but the original question raises a valid point -- without a 'delete account' function subscribers don't have control over their own data. And control over your own data is the primary tenet of !privacy. But @gargon raises valid issues about the difficulty of implementing a 'delete account' function. Still, when someone is just "testing out" a service it would be prudent not to test it with data intended to be private. #mastodon
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