💡 Quick ‘n Dirty prototype Yarn.social protocol/spec:
If we were to decide to write a new spec/protocol, what would it look like?
Here’s my rough draft (back of paper napkin idea):
- Feeds are JSON file(s) fetchable by standard HTTP clients over TLS
- WebFinger is used at the root of a user’s domain (or multi-user) lookup. e.g:
prologic@mills.io->https://yarn.mills.io/~prologic.json
- Feeds contain similar metadata that we’re familiar with: Nick, Avatar, Description, etc
- Feed items are signed with a ED25519 private key. That is all “posts” are cryptographically signed.
- Feed items continue to use content-addressing, but use the full Blake2b Base64 encoded hash.
- Edited feed items produce an “Edited” item so that clients can easily follow Edits.
- Deleted feed items produced a “Deleted” item so that clients can easily delete cached items.