Mike Macgirvin

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@mike@macgirvin.com · Joined ⁨Sep⁩ ⁨2024⁩

Australian transplant. "Machine wizard". Reverse-lefty guitarist (plays a right handed guitar upside-down and backwards).  Retired decentralised communications professional that participated in early Internet/web/email/fediverse protocol standardisation and related technologies -- with stints at Stanford University, Netscape, America Online, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, University of Wollongong, and others. Music store owner, luthier, and band-instrument repair. Semiconductor and thin-film process engineer and ultra high vacuum systems specialist.

Has strong and often unpopular opinions based on real-world experience achieving communications between systems with completely different protocols and policies, as well as their underlying definitions of what "communication" actually means.
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Mike Macgirvin@mike@macgirvin.com

Replying to an earlier post

The most portable solution we've found is to send a Note with InReplyTo containing nothing but a single emoji (which might be a composite emoji) after removing whitespace. The same algorithm on the receiving side also works for Like activities with single-emoji content. We treat these as emoji reactions internally. You can add one or more of the various 'EmojiReact' platform specific cohorts if you want. Just like punycode usernames - it federates with all the things. Unlike all the other solutions we've seen...