with some scripting, I could probably use my upcoming !weewiki !zettelkasten as a drop-in replacement for !twtxt, and then generate the twtxt file. however, I think I am going to keep them separate for the time being. let them both grow to serve different purposes.
@prologic@twtxt.net an added benefit of the avatar: would be the user could put their gravatar/libravatar image url like https://key.sour.is/avatar/01bc6186d015218c23dec55447e502e669ca4c61c7566dfcaa1cac256108dff0
@prologic@twtxt.net Could the config be embeded into the head comment of the twtxt.txt file and parsed out? If it also had an avatar: field that pointed to where the avatar image is located it can be almost all self contained.
New Blog Post Test Blog by @xuu@txt.sour.is 📝
@hecanjog@hecanjog.com has a twtxt feed yay
@lyxal@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net if we edit the txt file does it update on web?
@prologic@twtxt.net the HKP is http keyserver protocol. it’s what happens when you do gpg --send-keys
makes a POST to the keyserver with your pubkey.
@prologic@twtxt.net looking through the drafts it looks like it actually used SRV records as recently as 2018 😵
@prologic@twtxt.net Web Key Directory: a way to self host your public key. instead of using a central system like pgp.mit.net or OpenPGP.org you have your key on a server you own.
it takes an email@address.com hashes the part before the @ and turns it into [openpgpkey.]address.com/.well-known/openpgpkey[/address.com]/<hash>
@xuu@txt.sour.is With SRV you can set what hostname to be used (and port/priority/etc)
@xuu@txt.sour.is Not too happy with WKD’s use of CNAME over SRV for discovery of openpgpkey.. That breaks using SNI pretty quick. I suppose it was setup as a temporary workaround anyhow in the RFC..
My twtxt feed is now also part of https://github.com/jointwt/we-are-twtxt :-)
@prologic@twtxt.net also :)
@adi @prologic@twtxt.net One reservation about using it with a small community would be the expectation that the discussions at some level stay within the circle as opposed to the internet at large.
@prologic@twtxt.net @twtxt@txt.sour.is I have noticed that I will get some duplicate web mention notifications. some kind of dedup would be helpful.
Trying out twtxt..
@prologic@twtxt.net (#gqg3gea) ha yeah. COVID makes for a timey-wimey mish-mash. Worked on some WKD and fought with my XMPP client a bit.
@prologic@twtxt.net Herro! 👋
@prologic@twtxt.net well nice chat. it’s off to bed for me.
@prologic@twtxt.net do you think twt will ever add ActivityPub integration?
@prologic@twtxt.net Yep! installed it yesterday. I like the simplicity of twt. I am quite happy with how little memory the pod seems to use. Mastodon and the “lightweight” Pleroma don’t work well in small VMs.
That way at least we can form some kind of cryptographic “identity” without having to involve the users that much, it just works™
i like some of the work that keys.pub is doing with ed25519 crypto keys with something like that.
@prologic@twtxt.net huh.. true.. the email is md5/sha256 before storing.. if twtxt acted as provider you would store that hash and point the SRV record to the pod. .. to act as a client it would need to store the hash and the server that hosts the image.
@xuu@txt.sour.is @prologic@twtxt.net something that would be interesting would be libravatar for the user image. i made one that does the same for a profile cover image.
@xuu@txt.sour.is @prologic@twtxt.net The gpg command line leaves much to be desired…
@prologic@twtxt.net it is some interesting work to decentralize all the things.. tricky part is finding tooling. i am using a self hacked version of the go openpgp library. A tool to add and remove notations would need to be local since it needs your private key.
@prologic@twtxt.net this is a go version of Keyoxide.org that runs all server side. which is based on work from https://metacode.biz/openpgp/
OpenPGP has a part of the self signature reserved for notatinal data. which is basically a bunch of key/values.
this site tries to emulate the identity proofs of keybase but in a more decentralized/federation way.
my next steps are to have this project host WKD keys which is kinda like a self hosting of your pgp key that are also discoverable with http requests.
then to add a new notation for following other keys. where you can do a kind of web of trust.
This is an OpenPGP proof that connects my OpenPGP key to this Twtxt account. See https://key.sour.is/id/me@sour.is for more.
[Verifying my OpenPGP key: openpgp4fpr:20AE2F310A74EA7CEC3AE69F8B3B0604F164E04F]
@prologic@twtxt.net Oh snap. that’s what i get for copy paste! ill just have to repost and update my key.
@xuu@txt.sour.is can i notify myself?
@prologic@twtxt.net this is a very curious project. I would love to see how it manages to do its federation between pods.
@lucidiot@tilde.town haha oops! sorry about that. It’s fixed now.
Who am I kidding, quit twtxt? too addictive. Good night twtxt
Found twtxt again 🎉
My account at https://twtxt.net was deleted due to a server malfunction, but sysop @prologic@twtxt.net came to the rescue.
Registered to https://twtxt.net and managed to post a reply right before some kind of server error, now my account there is broken 😒
plans for weewiki: a zettelkasten-like interface, a microblogging platform inspired by !twtxt, and some utilities for managing collections of SQLar archives. #updates #halfbakedideas
twtxt command line microbogging https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
@lucididiot@tilde.town thank you for the backup! i agree that wiki is in dire need of some maintenance but that hardly seems like a reason to just up and delete it…
@vain@www.uninformativ.de NOICE. I’m gonna read it later today when i get out of work. also Re: bilingual blogging, i do english and spanish but i mostly try to keep the contents separated
@xandkar@xandkar.net I’m going to give it a shot. always interested in trying new clients
Thinkin I might quit twtxt and gemini, tidy up a bit,just use tilde club web, or gopher.
@vain@www.uninformativ.de your twtxt setup looks nice. It looks like what i’d like to do in some time when i’m better at Go
@vain@www.uninformativ.de :O nice catch! please tell me you’re gonna post lots of screenshots somewhere?
@birb@twtxt.net good mAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArning, my king
@prologic@twtxt.net @birb@twtxt.net It’s a bit difficult for me since i’m mostly maintaining my off-pod file. I wonder if this reply will reach either of you.
@birb@twtxt.net are you Questionable Content’s Yelling Bird in disguise? hi there
@vain@www.uninformativ.de nice. i’m gonna get on that, then.
@vain@www.uninformativ.de huh, i guess i still fully haven’t figured out followings yet. also hi, nice to see a familiar face around here.