@iamlayer8@IceCubesApp I would say this could be added to any of the three!
If we want to have this feature ASAP it could be done in a client (in a hacky way)
This definitely should be added to Mastodon, and then added to its API
This behavior should be documented in AP somewhere for best practices for all software to implement.
@liaizon@iamlayer8 The thing is, what qualifies as a response worthy of a notification?
I'd argue that at minimum Mastodon could notify you if you receive responses to reply chains you've commented in. That would go a long way towards reducing mention spam.
Mastodon doesn't really store a context that can be referred against, though it is of course possible.
ActivityPub supports the context property, which the forum working group is hoping to support.
FWIW NodeBB already supports topic notifications, because we build our own context. If @liaizon or anyone else I follow replies to your post, I'll still be notified, even if I am not mentioned!
Is there an #activitypub or #mastodon developer hangout place that people think is useful?
(In particular I'm trying right now to figure out if there is a protocol magic I can do to make infosec.exchange stop continuously telling me about the deletion of a particular profile I have never interacted with.)
@renchap thank you! it's related but not the same -- i was trying to figure out if there is a reason the deletion of the very same user is being sent to me over and over (i haven't counted, but maybe hundreds of times by now. thousands?)
No. Just, no. Not #VPN, nor any other technology is a solution, because the problem is much deeper than that. The US banning TikTok is just the beginning, they will simply continue expanding #censorship of any content the government finds objectionable. We may soon find governments like the US passing legislation that running an #ActivityPub server of any kind is illegal "terrorist activity" before long, and all NATO countries will follow suit (they must, or else risk losing NATO membership).
And of course the stated reason for the US blocking whole portions of the Internet is for "cypersecurity" reasons. Anyone with half a brain knows the real reason is to try to prevent sharing knowledge across borders, because that is the real threat to the politicians and their bosses.
It is really no different than what countries like China does with their Great Firewall, or what Iran does whitelisting only certain blocks of the Internet that exists outside of their borders, also for "cybersecurity" reasons. Of course the US government will continue to cite censorship of free speech as a reason that countries like China or Iran are inherently evil. This deranged political double-speak is the norm nowadays, as "antisemitism" is used as a justification to arrest Jewish people who protest war at their universities, but I digress.
they will simply continue expanding #censorship of any content the government finds objectionable
The thought error here is that it isn't just the US government.
Over here in Europe various NGO's informed about bad practices of TikTok first. How addicting it is. How little they do to kill videos making younglings do fatal things (some people died to do Tiktok challenges, thousands were hospitalized!). The list goes on.
Only after years (!) of repeated warnings did the EU commission start to apply rules to TikTok. Which TikTok do far seem to ignore intentionally.
In my eyes, this has nothing to do with "censoring". You misuse the word, I'd say.
But I'm not following a libertarian mindset. Most immediate "but censorship!" cryers however do. They never lived in a country that does actual censorship (like German Third Reich, former Eastern Germany, current China or Russia). But hey, the term describes a horrible in practice, so let's use it for the outrage feelings it induces, even if it doesn't fit at all.
But if you are in this libertarian mindset, then I have a quest for you: relocate to Sudan or Somalia. They both have effectively anarchy: the central government is totally powerless. You can follow a libertarian mindset as much as possible: doing anything, saying anything. However, other parties will do the same, and some of this "doing anything" will probably harm you. But you asked for a weak government, that is cold and ignores the weak. So have it, your dream, your choice, your utopia!
And then you might perhaps understand that no single freedom is absolute. There are many freedoms and basic rights that compete. Here e.g. freedom of speech, freedom of expression. And freedom of being unharmed.
@ramin_hal9001 I suspect you are right re #activitypub
Anything the US cant control or manipulate is a problem
With #tiktok , foreign ownership provided the "justification",
With activitypub servers i expect they will find something to do with copyright or moderation of illegal content rather than just admit that if an american corp doesnt control it and manipulate it to the satisfaction of the Amerocan government, then it must be banned
Why I prefer reading #GhostBlog blogs to #Medium and am looking forward to their #ActivityPub networking. I'm not sure if Medium authors remember this is the first impression that many of their blogs will see-- a good part of the page covered with a popover.
With regards to avoiding the tracking there's https://scribe.rip that you can replace a medium url with. You get a cleaned up version of the medium article then.
Unfortunately you cannot bypass restricted access articles that way.
The max_id, since_id, and min_id parameters in #Mastodon's Timeline API assume that the post ID is a sortable number. (Is this correct?) #Hollo, the #ActivityPub implementation I'm building, uses UUIDs for post IDs internally, so I'm stuck on how to implement a Mastodon-compatible API.
If you're looking to host your very own single-user/a-few-users #fediverse instance, you cannot go wrong with #snac. It is simple to install on Ubuntu and works very well with some really solid clients. It is also written in C, so it is fast, with few dependencies. Great work @grunfink, you've got a new monthly supporter on Ko-fi!
@chema@grunfink Endorse. I haven't installed it yet but as a fellow portable C enthusiast I checked it out and did a test compile. No complaints, looks great, including the man pages.
snac is the reason I joined the Fediverse in the first place. This is the only server software I know that tries to mitigate the addiction mechanisms common to most micro-blogging platforms.
Boh, give up. Ho cercato di "federare" un blog Wordpress usando il famoso plugin, ma non funziona .."perche' dipende da questo ..perche' dipende da quell'altro.. ah ma forse il tuo hosting... ah, ma forse gli admin hanno attivato quell'altro .. ah ma forse sticazzi?".