Another masto patch i take for granted on neuromatchstodon that actually makes for a lovely local tl:
glitch allows us to include boosts in the local TL, which makes it so people can "boost in" to the TL: you see not only what ppl are posting, but what they are looking at. boosting shares horizontally within small instances. That gets annoying tho, because you end up seeing the same boost a zillion times sometimes, so we added a filter that makes it so you only see the most recent one.
Just nice quality of life things for small fedi instances <3
Shiny new posting interface in the latest Glitch-Social code, including a much more visible choice of posting modes, and with the 'Unlisted' mode renamed to "Quiet Public".
Likely to be coming to a Mastodon server near you fairly soon.
Hello again #Fediverse, I may need your #fedihelp. So, here's a list of the Fediverse software I'm about to make temporary accounts for to test all the features and differences:
So, did I miss anything noteworthy? Does anyone have any tips or recommendations before I choose a server for any one of these? I'll probably be going for the most popular server on each for improved federation and maintenance.
Note: I'm using #Sharkey right now and Misskey forks are already overrepresented, so that's why it's not included.
@danieldekay no the same - I have hundreds of different followers on each network, although all could follow on either one. I post manually to Hubzilla, but my Friendica site auto-posts from my blog RSS feed.
Both networks are profile -only posts, so no separation into topics like Google+ had. I loved posting into topics as that gave some focus for followers. Actually think Reddit has that inside channels, but I left Reddit for Lemmy.
Isn't the internet clever. My little mastodon server is hosted in one country, I live in a completely different one, and at the moment I'm in yet another place on this planet thousands of miles away from either - and I've just smoothly and easily upgraded it to the latest version of glitch-social due to a vulnerability patch being released.
I got in a rabbit hole looking into why md tables weren't formatting in #glitchsoc . Glitch's markdown render, RedCarpet, does allow markdown tables, but Glitch nor does the downline fork (#chuckya ) running my instance enable it. I'm not entirely sure but it looks like the extensions object at https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/blob/8c76a208ed30cc1bd54262302b2aed27ae142509/app/lib/advanced_text_formatter.rb#L106 simply needs to have a property "tables:true" added to make it work. I'll have to open an issue when I finally get past GH's horrible anti-alias policy.
Obviously it's not advertised as working in the docs https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/features/rich-text/ but it's a common enough extension now that you'd think someone would have opened an issue already requesting it. I oddly couldn't find any even closed related issue tickets.
Ok I think I have figured out filtering duplicate boosts from public timelines on #glitchsoc. Sort of hard because I have no intuition for order of operations in postgres in subqueries, but I think it should work and only adds 1ms to one of the queries bc of the magic of window functions and snowflake ids
Anyone up for a little light #CodeReview? Glitch has an option to show boosts in the local TL, which I think is lovely for small instances like ours, it really helps new ppl get oriented in the fedi. The problem is public feeds dont filter duplicate boosts in the same way that home feeds do, so you end up seeing the same boost lots of time.
I wrote a patch to only show the most recent boost in public TLs, but since I am a relative noob with postgres, SQL, and rails, and since it touches core feed functionality id love it if someone took a look before we deploy on our instance (after some field testing we'll pull upstream). I tried to make it as contained as I could so other masto forks could merge it in too, if ya interested.
Does anyone know if you compose a toot on #Tusky using a #GlitchSoc#Mastodon account will it give you the drop down options for plain text, markdown and HTML ? Or is that web only ?
I spent some time tonight getting "mastodon-bird-ui" which is self-described as "🐘🐦 Mastodon web UI, but strongly inspired by Twitter" created by @rolle integrated nicely into my #mastodon server (https://expressional.social/) as a #glitchsoc "flavour" 😍
Now it's more prominently featured in the profile UI, further nudging folks towards it over the vanilla experience ✌️