Post #1180895
2026-04-11 18:43 UTC
New blog post about something I realized this morning re: potential chat apps that could let you pass around capabilities: https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/structured-messaging.html
In summary: I think message contents should also be treated as structured data rather than just as strings! Feels like something I should have realized sooner, but it's funny how the brain doesn't always make connections that seem obvious in retrospect
#ocap #spritely
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@ridley@hachyderm.io 2026-04-11 18:53
@jfred@jawns.club I think I also like it better as structured data than parsing meaning out of a string. Seems more intentional and less prone to unexpected problems.
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@cwebber@social.coop 2026-04-15 11:59
@jfred@jawns.club Yeah! The Fantasary demo used structured data like this and that's how we handled petnames and other things :) Also it's got my deadname on it, but here's a thread you will like: https://groups.google.com/g/cap-talk/c/Wa6VR-k3bLo/m/tXPKjIbvAQAJ
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@tonyg@pubsub.leastfixedpoint.com 2026-04-15 12:12
@jfred@jawns.club This is why Preserves is the way it is, with its "embedded" values. It's directly analogous to unquote