It's public now! Spritely (and myself) have been awarded a Samsung Stack Zero grant! I'm funded for the next two years to bring ActivityPub and the fediverse to the next level. Secure interactions, object capabilities, p2p content delivery, all that stuff! https://samsungnext.com/whats-next/category/podcasts/decentralization-samsung-next-stack-zero-grant-recipients/
From the article:
> Christopher Lemmer Webber is the co-editor and co-author of the now-ubiquitous ActivityPub protocol. While it provides a great framework for creating, updating, and deleting content across applications, it doesn’t provide any standardised mechanism for secure authorisation. With Spritely, Webber will work on extending the protocol in a backward-compatible manner, while at the same time building tools and applications that showcase its use.
Oh yeah and the whole thing is gonna be done in lisp/scheme/Racket!
Sorry parenthesis haters!!
I guess this would be a good time to mention #spritely on freenode, which currently is "population me" only.
Oh yeah, maybe you're like "WTF is this Spritely thing, I haven't heard of this before now...???"
Well I have talked about it a bit, but not enough... it's been in the planning stages for a while, and as of this week, starting to ramp up into the execution space. Read more here: https://dustycloud.org/blog/spritely/
Well that's kind of handy!👌 🙌
@cwebber federated social games?
@cwebber
I'm very interested in social games, but still more interested in what you're working on to keep small instances from getting Slash-Dotted as the network of AP services grows 😂😎
@cwebber I'd very much care!!!
@grainloom @cwebber That sounds friggin amazing, to be fair.
@ChrisWere @grainloom We'll see! It's a driving use case. The reason for the distributed game is partly that it tends to be a good driver for building cool things, even if the game part doesn't succeed itself. At any rate, the game part will come a bit later, but you can see the pre-fediverse game I did on the video of this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/8sync/
like right now, if I want to talk to e.g. Pleroma, Mastodon, and Misskey, I either stick with publicly-accessible objects (current solution) or have to implement three separate login/auth systems, and that's a pain
@cwebber the more standard scheme compatible the better I say.
@cwebber ((sorry-not—sorry))
@cwebber Congrats!!
@cwebber congratulations! you're gonna do some great things!
@cwebber expletive amazing!
@cwebber That is so amazing! Congratulations!
@cwebber If it had a matrix bridge I'd love to lurk
@cwebber Or on XMPP or Matrix. Go full federated with the announcement.
@cwebber wow, congratulations!
@cwebber (get ready for people calling you a paid bootlicker shill)
@cwebber wow, exciting!
@cwebber o w o s o m e
@cwebber Wow! That is great to hear! Congratulations!
@cwebber please use keys. nested SSH sessions. whatever. do not use OAuth or things involving passwords or sending secrets around.
@imixstimsandkinks
@cwebber
Please tell me that I correctly remember hearing "rebuilding the web of trust" in this context
!!!!!!!
@cwebber Congrats!
@cwebber I'm so excited. I love all the possibilities of AP.
Congratulations! 👏
@cwebber that is excellent news, congratulations!
I didn't know about this grant at all, kudos for Samsung are in order, it seems.
@cwebber
congrats 👍
@cwebber You industrious son of a gun :)
@cwebber congrats!!
@cwebber CONGRATS! Really excited for you. And now that golem is released, I'm going to try to dig into it given the little I know of Racket. :)
@cwebber
Congratulations :)
@cwebber Congratulations! Well deserved from you and forward-looking from Samsung.
I hope to see you Saturday!
@cwebber that's great! I don't know what else to add! Money is money is money!
@cwebber this is amazing! Congratulations!
@cwebber Congrats! Definitely keeping my eyes out as to what you'll be cranking out!
@cwebber congrats!!
@cwebber Nice, congrats!
@cwebber congrats - i look forward to what comes out of this
That also includes attempting to bring federated social games to the fediverse but maybe not everyone cares about that one as much :)