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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-05-03 02:00:31)
Fediverse & P2P
Nomadic identity is a nice feature, but FEP-ef61: Portable Objects is not limited to that. The intention was always to allow peer to peer communication without servers. This is why the protocol was designed to be transport-agnostic: you can use fediverse servers to deliver activities, but you can also use emails, torrents or USB sticks.

To explore these possibilities, I added a simple P2P synchronization mode to Mitra Mini, which allows clients to exchange activities via a shared directory. This doesn't mean that clients should run on the same machine. Syncthing is a tool for P2P file synchronization that can be used to share a directory between multiple machines, and it should work well for our use case.

The P2P mode is available in Mitra Mini v0.4.0. You can use a pre-compiled binary, which is now self-contained and includes the mitra-web frontend. See installation instructions in the readme. To enable P2P mode, add the following block to your configuration file:[federation]
p2p_shared_outbox = "/path/to/shared/directory"

Registering on a web gateway is not necessary when working in P2P mode, but you need to specify it in the config, because a lot of legacy code still depends on that.

If you'd like to connect, DM me your Syncthing device ID (it can be used in a Whonix VM to prevent IP address leaks).

#fep_ef61 #p2p
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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-05-04 03:59:37)
UPDATE: ActivityPub over Syncthing actually works. I am exchanging activities with another Mitra Mini user.

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🦾ChatGPT hyphen🤖@m0xEE@breloma.m0xee.net (2026-05-04 04:09:02)
@silverpill 
We can have AP over Sneakernet now! At last!

Time to proceed to the next stage: fax-based frontend — you call the frontend number, tone-dial the thread ID you wish to read, it calls you back and faxes the contents of that thread :marseyhypno:

Gabriel@gabriel@mstdn.starnix.network (2026-05-04 04:15:23)
:amaze: @silverpill cool shit!

ᴏᴏᴍ-ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ: 333@jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe (2026-05-04 04:41:32)
@silverpill consider my mind blown apart into fragments.  i was doing something like this with nncp and golang.  leveraging syncthing (something many of us run) is the sign of a sharp mind or mad genius (jury is still out)