[WIP] Show author slug on author and small improvements

[appinteractive]

As a user
I always want to see the user slug near its name
To be able to see who is hiding behind the mutable name

Additionally, I pinned the post menu and fixed the truncation of strings.

Todos

• Fix comment date display

[roschaefer]

to.many.dots.make.a.NullPointerException.very.likely

[Lulalaby]

what do you mean 😄

[roschaefer]

I find this a terrible idea. You want to be able to change your slug at some point. E.g. I changed my twitter slug from roschaefer1 to roschaeferDE to indicate my domain. I can think of many reasons to be able to change your slug, because you really don't want a particular URL.

[appinteractive]

@roschaefer but then we do not have any indication or referencing of a user that we could Display.

[roschaefer]

@appinteractive this is correct. E.g. each post in mastodon and diaspora has a digital signature. We should do that too. Create a RSA key pair for each user account and digitally sign each post.

As a next step we must solve the problem how a user can visually distinguish user accounts with the same name. Maybe sth. like RSA fingerprint => emoji? Telegram secures voice calls with emojis.

[roschaefer]

hah! https://gist.github.com/windytan/7910910/

[roschaefer]

https://twitter.com/windyoona/status/410766290349879296?lang=en

[appinteractive]

@roschaefer I dont think that that would solve the issue to be honest. At least not at first glance!

[roschaefer]

@appinteractive we can take the first part of the fingerprint like git rev-parse --short HEAD. We could optionally use emojis instead of characters (Telegram uses 4).

Other social networks like Facebook and Twitter don't have this problem so much because only posts of friends of a friend will show up in the news feed. Maybe we need to fine tune our news feed?

Additionally we could make an image similarity comparison of avatars.

[appinteractive]

Tuning the newsfeed is really important and one of my reasons for the switch to nitro!

But with the topic of user identity we have to do way more research and think about a real solution to that problem.

[Lulalaby]

@appinteractive what's the status?

[appinteractive]

I will fix the last issue as soon as possible.