Display any notes I might have taken about a user under their follow request in the notifications tab, and let me add new notes.
That would make it much more easy to deal with larger amounts of follow requests right as they come in, see if they follow requested before, and let me write notes for later (i.e. what context they f-req'd in) so I don't lose track of my follow requests.
Usually, when someone follow requests me, I put a note on their profile like this:
follow requested 2024-06-04 after liking, boosting my (topic xyz) post (link to post), replied (link to reply)
Then, when I have the time and energy to, I go through my backlog of follow requests, vet the profiles, and accept or deny the requests.
That requires going back and forth between posts and profiles several times to copy links and such, and whenever I do that, I lose my place in the notifications and have to scroll all the way down again. When I don't have the spoons to, I don't do that, annd those follow requests usually get denied when weeks later I can't reconstruct what they were about anymore.
Having that text field right in the notifications and being able to just copy paste links from the surrounding notifications would be a HUGE upgrade.
It would be so cool if there was an official mastodontext library so projects don't have to copy that slightly modified twittertext into their source. #tuskydev#mastodev
If you've ever tried to implement an OAuth Application for Mastodon, and butted into the “unknown client_id / application” error, where the Mastodon server has silently deleted your OAuth Application….
I'm adding new profile fields to #Smithereen, so I would like to ask the fediverse about what kinds of contact info one would expect to be able to add to their profile. So far I've seen:
Personal website/blog
Matrix
XMPP
Telegram
Signal
Phone number
Twitter
Email
I've not yet seen these in fediverse profiles but they are mainstream enough that won't hurt to add:
I'm just a humble country chicken admin, but I've been thinking a lot about the cost of the fediverse and how we can improve it for all of the instances... in a coop kind of way
The cost of handing all of the media is THE major problem for me atm.
So, #Smithereen no longer requires a username when signing up. You instead get assigned one automatically, of the form "idXXX" where XXX is the ID for your user record. You can change it later in settings if you wish. Current Mastodon versions handle this change no problem.
The username is only visible in two places:
The URL of your profile
When someone mentions you
So it's not very important. Definitely not important enough to be a required field when you register.
I saw a post today about another Mastodon API endpoint that is kind of in a zombie state (I looked into Featured Profiles awhile back).
This one is a “Mastodon Wrapped" end of year review.
On m.s. it's accessible but as expected doesn't return any data. Currently, the admin would have to jump to the console and run a task to populate the reports.
Like other "wrapped" end of year summaries, it's only available to the user.
@newsmast is the Social Media Feed (@socialmedia) just boosting everything under the mastodon hashtag?
It might be wise to filter out posts also tagged with #MastoDev and #MastoAPI since these are intended for developer audiences rather than the general public.
Just did a test, and I think we may be able to implement FedCM in Mastodon. It seems that you can actually create Doorkeeper Applications with a client_id that's a URL, rather than having it generate a unique client_id for you.
However, where it fails is that you don't get a unique client_id, so registering the same client again fails with a duplicate record error (maybe this is intentional?)
I guess FedCM client_id's don't have a client_secret at all to use…
We just published our first Trunk & Tidbits post! This will hopefuly be a monthly update where we showcase what we worked on last month, and what's coming next.
I hope this will bring more visibility to all the efforts and love that put on Mastodon
Coincidentally, this seems to expose a gap in #Fediverse security—since right now there's no way for me to continue posting to a hashtag I use frequently and avoid this user, who openly admits that they use .social to browse hashtags and then quote posts.
The only way I can use a hashtag on this federated network is to make my post publicly visible. Doesn't that make all hashtag-based communities here vulnerable to surveillance and potential abuse?
@adnan Maybe the #Fediverse would benefit from some kind of "listed and fediverse-public but not external-public" level of post visibility that would allow people to have their posts on hashtags propagated across the fediverse and visible internally within the federated timeline but not visible via pages like the non-authenticated external search on most instances to people who are not logged in 🤔
In case someone wants possibly the longest thread on the fediverse for testing purposes, here you go: https://mastodon.social/@brownpau/112322747861701800
With the way I store replies in #Smithereen, this will soon exceed my limit of 256 levels ¯_(ツ)_/¯
So, creating a block to refuse media doesn't affect the blocked domain's ability to create Preview Cards?
I created several media blocks for instances, esp bot instances that I want to come across posts or follow a few accounts, hoping to control my media storage and stop unnecessary media downloads and SideKiq jobs on posts that will only be stored in my search database from the federated timeline, but the preview cards are still being created. #MastoAdmin#MastoDev
*Use /search for search (/search?query=something)
*Move account secrets to a dedicated table (and encrypt it?)
*Add a way for the user to select which languages they understand
*Allow admins to configure instance favicon and logo
*Allow searching for hashtags in admin UI
*Convert Redux state to Typescript #MastoAdmin#devops#Programmers#dev.
I would like to add my Mastodon instance to my browsers search engines list. Interestingly, Miskey and Sharkey and some other federated platforms I've been to are already added.
I'm getting great results for content from my Mastodon search than Google and Bing, + no ads, and tracking.