TIL Mastodon offers metadata fields in profiles!
@schlink on like two instances :/
@zeezeemoomoo oh, is it optional choice for admins? Or is it just that other instances aren't running the latest version of Mastodon yet? cc @gargron
@schlink @zeezeemoomoo It's in 2.4.0 and it's not optional.
@schlink ...I hadn't picked up on that, nice catch!
if there was a standardized way share a public GPG key (say, link to MIT server page), you could (hypothetically) make a browser extension to encrypt and decrypt DMs... (Is this a bad idea? I honestly am not sure)
@schlink use ECC keys and then maybe we can talk
@schlink Sadly it doesn't degrade gracefully. It's only visible on Mastodon 2.4.0+ and doesn't load in older versions / other ActivityPub implementations.
@gargron are these fields displayed in non-Mastodon instances of the fediverse that don't support metadata fields?
If not, there could a fall-back where they're displayed as plaintext on their own lines, right?
for example:
Wire: @sschlinkert
Birdsite: https://twitter.com/sts10
@schlink i think its relatively new