⚠️ We are planning to release important security fixes for #Mastodon on July 6th, between 13:00 and 15:00 UTC. They will be available for the 4.1, 4.0 and 3.5 versions as well as a nightly release, to make the upgrade as small and painless for everyone as possible. Be ready to upgrade!
You can fetch the follower count, you can fetch the people who participated in polls, but you can’t fetch likes & boost statistics as well as posts made in the past on another server?
Excuses! It’s easily possible. Even on a client basis.
I use @michael's #FediFetcher to do this. You can run it as a GitHub action, server, or desktop computer. Basically, set it up and forget about it. It chugs along backfilling new follows/followers, replies to posts, and more.
@paul Thanks for the mention! Just to set expecatations: FediFetcher works really well to pull in replies, etc (if I say so myself 🙈), but it can sadly not pull in correct likes / boosts count, as Mastodon doesn't have an API for that 😔
@Erik@Nie_6969@Mastodon it is possible in theory, AFAIK yes, but not with ActivityPub itself and it will a lot of load for servers and it's kind of a trade-off question: do we really need the whole history of a user or should we better safe our resources?
@Aranjedeath@Nie_6969@Mastodon That may be a different issue. When following a user who hasn’t been seen by the server before you’ll typically only see their posts from that point onward, their profile won’t show the posts from before you followed them (the server discovered them).
Whereas that message refers to a user who has migrated and since posts currently cannot be migrated (natively) and so they direct you to the original profile/server to see those posts.
@BenjaminNelan thank you for differentiating, I did know that when I posted (contained within the phrase "part of the problem"). Once you have the software and operational infrastructure to backfill posts... It is not hard to add additional situations where you do so.
@Aranjedeath I agree that it could be done this way and I would prefer it than the current system.
Though may affect how those backfilled posts could be interacted/distributed. Backfill = cache linking to existing ActivityPub objects. In the case of a migrated account where the remote server no longer exists you effectively have zombie posts.
@Aranjedeath Having said that - I just did an experiment with my self-hosted server where I cached old posts from my old account then edited the database to change the owner to the migrated user's new account and... it works just fine...
No idea if there's side effects of doing this, about to try it on a post that has replies. I definitely thought there was more going on under the hood though.
@Mastodon in your next update, PLEASE make a desktop oled dark mode - not having the darkest possible dark mode hurts my eyes, at night even more PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
@Mastodon in your next update, PLEASE make a desktop oled dark mode - not having the darkest possible dark mode hurts my eyes, at night even more - a lot of pleads
@soupglasses you could prep hydra to be green and trigger an nixos-unstable eval right after the merge but other than that hydra has not much to offer for this.
@soupglasses I just cherry-picked the commit into my forked branch but with that PR I wouldn't need to do that anymore. It is a little bit to big to be cherry-picked itself and I want to avoid IFD as much as possible otherwise you could hack something together with applyPatches
@soupglasses IFD and having your own hydra to build your systems just doesn't go well. The evaluation runner needs to built everything to import the final derivation which is not being remote build and the logs of that get combined into the evaluation error tab. When using replaceRuntimeDependencies this means the evaluation runner builds the entire system locally.
@sandro Yeah... its by no means pretty. But having vs. not having patches, its sadly the better choice to take.
Trying to keep its use to a minimum, and instead apply overlays whenever possible. But not every PR fits neatly into an overlay I'm afraid. :blobfoxnotlikethis:
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Dear developers, please fix the bug on the android application. Text and media files are superimposed as a screen saver in the profile, and when you scroll it is unclear what is displayed
@Mastodon maybe you should fix how explore works first, it's been one day and no changes. People had toot too much and newer post do not appear. This is flawed and should be fixed.
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