XSF Communications Team - 2018-08-15


  1. vanitasvitae

    Hi! I noticed, there is no official XMPP/XSF Account on mastodon / any ActivityPub based social network. Are there any plans to create one? As I understand there are twitter clients that can be used to publish to Twitter and mastodon at the same time. Also I think as both XMPP and ActivityPub are federated networks, being present on Mastodon would be quite fitting. Note that matrix does have a Mastodon account as well, which is great to get in touch with the community.

  2. MattJ

    Do they run their own instance? or what?

  3. SouL

    vanitasvitae, I think it is a good point, thank you for your suggestion. But I also wonder about the instance and such

  4. SouL

    We will try to take a look at what Matrix does as well

  5. MattJ

    Maybe we should wait for the Prosody ActivityPub bridge and use that :)

  6. SouL

    :D

  7. vanitasvitae

    Matrix is running their own instance

  8. vanitasvitae

    I imagine it would be especially cool to communicate new XEP proposals to users and devs that way

  9. vanitasvitae

    fyi this is the matrix mastodon account 🙂 https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix

  10. jc

    I'd be interested in running an xmpp instance

  11. jc

    Partly also for selfish reasons, I want a mastodon instance to test Converse integration with

  12. jc

    Together with MattJ's cookie auth

  13. MattJ

    Maybe we could set up mastodon.xmpp.net

  14. SouL

    Wow

  15. SouL

    that would be awesome

  16. pep.

    > I imagine it would be especially cool to communicate new XEP proposals to users and devs that way Why not use the protocol at hand?

  17. pep.

    It's not like pubsub wasn't already a thing.

  18. pep.

    I don't disagree with having a mastodon account/instance but I would limit the usage

  19. vanitasvitae

    > Why not use the protocol at hand? > It's not like pubsub wasn't already a thing. Bridge all the things!!!

  20. MattJ

    I hang out in Matrix rooms, using an XMPP bridge to connect to an IRC channel which they have bridged to their room on matrix.org

  21. vanitasvitae

    I mean somehow bridge pubsub and activepub :)