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Welcome to CRLF DOT NINJA

Hello, you’re browsing the announcements/informational portion of crlf.ninja, a fediverse instance run by pwm. I host and administer this instance, which federates via ActivityPub with compatible servers run by others. You must have an account somewhere in order to post, it doesn’t necessarily have to be here, but we’d be happy to have you. Probably.

This works like if anyone could host their own twitter or facebook, and they could mostly all talk to one another. Registration is currently open, and it comes with a few goodies:

  • a pleroma account
  • an XMPP account
  • possibly a few other services as we go.

Your XMPP account shares credentials with your pleroma account, so your username and password will be the same, and your JID (Jabber ID, or XMPP address) will be your-username@crlf.ninja. If you enable OTP for pleroma, it will not affect your sign in to your XMPP account (it’s all very hacked together, and held in place with duct-tape and prayer). Please enable end-to-end encryption on your client such as OMEMO, as while we don’t want to read your messages, we also do not want to be able to. Messages are stored for one week, after which they are removed from the server-side archive. HTTP upload XEP-0363 is not currently enabled for the sake of your safety. 1

CRLF is home hosted, though all traffic does go through a server in the cloud first. At rest though your data sits under an empty can of soda and a partially eaten – and rapidly going stale – bag of non-brand specific cheese flavored puffed corn snacks. Guardians of your data, no finer could you find.

Should you find yourself using CRLF, stay safe, play somewhat nice, and have fun.

  1. HTTP upload breaks the model of your client only communicating with your provider, and instead allows your client to contact the provider of whomever offered the upload. This is not a problem unless the uploading provider is malicious, and we feel that you cannot trust your own provider, much less third-parties to the client-server relationship. Perhaps our hearts will be softened somewhat as others adopt CRLF and its XMPP service, but until then HTTP upload will remain off. Note that this will not prevent your client from downloading others’ uploaded images, if your client supports the relevant portions of the extension. ↩︎