The NLnet foundation is a non-profit organization that supports open-source projects. They have a grant program that funds projects that align with their goals. On behalf of Polyphony and the polyproto project, I have submitted an application for a grant of 10,000€ from the NLnet foundation in their funding round of October 2024.
polyproto is a new federation protocol. Its main focus is enabling seamless participation of one actor on many different servers. The core specification lacks routes for sending any sort of user generated data anywhere, though. What is up with that?
In this little update post I write about what I've done in the last couple of weeks alongside talking about taking just a little break (don't worry, y'all are not getting rid of me!)
This blog post covers a bit about how and why X.509 is used in polyproto, and how we try to make the process of implementing your own server and incorporating it into an existing network a little easier.
Account migration is an important and difficult thing to get right in federated systems. In this blog post, I will outline how I imagine account migration to work in polyproto, and what benefits this approach brings.