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I think I figured out a way to show profile pics on StreetPass, all while still keeping the logic for profile resolution 100% clientside (no centralized server needed & no data ever leaving your browser!)

It involves pushing a change to Mastodon itself 👀 We can update the webfinger responses to include an “avatar” link – something that's already documented in the webfinger spec here webfinger.net/rel/

Just opened my first PR in the mastodon repo with the changes 🎉 github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

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I've been struggling with this feature for months now. It would obviously be such an improvement to show profile photos, but the only way I could think of doing it before was by spinning up a server that every streetpass user would have to phone into

I really love how simple and secure StreetPass is. Everything's done 100% in your browser —nothing’s ever sent back to me. This is a legitimate path forward that will keep streetpass working in a safe and fully decentralized way!