@MonaApp Is it possible to filter #hashtags from the main timeline but keep it in a tab icon? Basically like lists.. I can find the „pin to tab bar“ but don’t know how to filter it from the timeline..
I echo that welcome/je renforce cet accueil. Hope you like it here!
+1 osm. I rely on it every day.
Follow @FediFollows for curated lists of whom you should follow.
Follow @lisamelton for an interesting and varied feed.
Do lots of searches for #hashtags.
#Bluesky supports #quoteposts, but not listing all known quotes of a post? And you're telling me this is supposed to be the most Twitter-like experience, when this feature has been a staple of #Twitter for many years?
This is worse than not having #hashtags. How tf am I supposed to know if a post got quoted? Even #Misskey supports listing all known quotes FFS! :parsee_angy:
By "Tumblr pulled a DeviantArt", you mean...? My impression was DeviantArt was always nsfw, but Tumblr now disallows that? Or did DeviantArt also change their terms to be more restrictive?
Anyway, follow @FediFollows for curated lists of whom you should follow.
Follow @lisamelton for an interesting and varied feed.
Do lots of searches for #hashtags.
Just wan say I joined mastodon by accident. Just saw this ho trending 1 day an I thought yeah what tf.
It is so fking good tho. So many different posts yall don get on other socials.
I no I'm younger than most folks on here but this shit good.
Looking fo mo people to fw. Hit me up if yall interested.
Love Jaden ❤️ #introduction#introductions
@Jaden3
Wow, great to see you here!!! I can't even get my own kid on here. Do you mind if I give a couple good tips? If not, here's #1 - Always use #hashtags in your posts and in your profile. There are no evil algorithms or overlords here who decide what you're allowed to see. . #2 You can find cool people to follow with Search button and the hashtag you want to see. My posts, for example, say #travel and #photography.
Since the BridgyFed drama, there might be four more reasons for Mastodon users to want Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) out of the Fediverse. I mean, aside from their usual atrocities like their users writing well over 500 characters, using text formatting, quoting and quote-posting like it's totally normal. Because it is for them. And aside from no instance on any of the three having rules and moderator numbers on par with Mastodon.
One, they aren't based on ActivityPub. They're technically bridged to Mastodon. They're bridged one instance at the time, and the bridge is a plug-in on the instance and therefore part of the project. But still, it isn't that much different from BridgyFed connecting Bluesky to the rest of the Fediverse.
Two, since they aren't based on ActivityPub, they're aliens. Aliens of basically the same kind as Bluesky, only that they've mostly got those features that Mastodon has that Bluesky doesn't. But the BridgyFed drama isn't about Bluesky's features or lack thereof, and it isn't only about Bluesky being commercial either. It's also about Bluesky being too different in technology, functionality and culture. But let me tell you a secret: Bluesky is probably much closer to Mastodon than Hubzilla. I mean, I've already mentioned how Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) users "misbehave" from a Mastodon point of view. You won't see any of this come from Bluesky anytime soon.
Three, Friendica is already fully federated with Bluesky. It's a feature that was introduced with the latest stable release.
Four, speaking of Friendica, that allegedly "hate-fuelling" Fediverse News is a public group account on Friendica. Only that the user who started that particular thread is on Firefish, and Fediverse News only automatically forwarded what he had posted.
@scott Hello Scott, t/y muchly for taking the time to explain that helpfully for me. 🤗 At the risk of appearing even more stupid...
"building a bridge between ActivityPub and AT Protocol" ... yes i had heard of that, but til now had been naively unaware of all the Sturm und Drang this is apparently generating, eg... "so angry that they are flipping out and dropping F bombs" --> to the extent that i am doing my several hours of daily fediversing, i spend all that time in my Home timeline, not in the local server nor global timelines, & in my Home i follow a very large number of #hashtags, + a smaller but not negligible number of accounts. Clearly an unintended by-product of my curation has been to insulate me almost entirely from these apparent "range wars" raging beyond my purview.
You listed #Friendica twice, ie, in both of the "protocol camps". Is that a typo, or deliberate? If the latter, it might explain & resolve my confusion when reading Jupiter's OP, given somehow i had been thinking that Friendica is using AP.
"Scuttlebutt" ... i love this, & shall now immediately begin searching for suitable instances i can join! 😜
"far as Friendica federating with Bluesky, the administrator of the server would have to activate that" ... yes, that's exactly as i hoped it would be, which is why before, & again now, i have cc'd @alfred
I've written an ActivityPub server which . That's all it does. It won't record favourites or reposts. There's no support for following other accounts or receiving replies. It cannot delete or update posts nor can it verify signatures. It doesn't have a database or any storage beyond flat files.
But it will happily send messages and allow itself to be followed.
This shows that it is totally possible to broadcast fully-featured ActivityPub messages to the Fediverse with minimal coding skills and modest resources.
I wanted to create a service a bit like FourSquare. For this, I needed an ActivityPub server which allows posting geotagged locations to the Fediverse.
I didn't want to install a fully-featured server with lots of complex parts. So I (foolishly) decided to write my own. I had a lot of trouble with HTTP Signatures. Because they are cursed and I cannot read documentation. But mostly the cursed thing.
Creating a minimum viable Mastodon instance can be done with half a dozen static files. That gets you an account that people can see. They can't follow it or receive any posts though.
I wanted to use PHP to build an interactive server. PHP is supported everywhere and is simple to deploy. Luckily, Robb Knight has written an excellent tutorial, so I ripped off his code and rewrote it for Symfony.
The structure is relatively straightforward.
/.well-known/webfinger is a static file which gives information about where to find details of the account.
/[username] is a static file which has the user's metadata, public key, and links to avatar images.
/following and /followers are also static files which say how many users are being followed / are following.
/posts/[GUID] a directory with JSON files saved to disk - each ones contains the published ActivityPub note.
/photos/ is a directory with any uploaded media in it.
/outbox is a list of all the posts which have been published.
/inbox is an external API endpoint. An ActivityPub server sends it a follow request, the endpoint then POSTs a cryptographically signed Accept message to the follower's inbox. The follower's inbox address is saved to disk.
/logs is a listing of all the messages received by the inbox.
/new is a password protected page which lets you write a message. This is then sent to...
/send is an internal API endpoint. It constructs an ActivityPub note, with attached location metadata, and POSTs it to each follower's inbox with a cryptographic signature.
That's it.
The front-end grabs my phone's geolocation and shows the 25 nearest places within 100 metres. One click and the page posts to the /send endpoint which then publishes a message saying I'm checked in. It is also possible to attach to the post a short message and a single photo with alt text.
There's no database. Posts are saved as JSON documents. Images are uploaded to a directory. It is single-user, so there is no account management.
I've raised an issue on Mastodon to see if they can support showing locations in posts. Hopefully, one day, they'll allow adding locations and then I can shut this down.
The code needs tidying up - it is very much a scratch-my-own-itch development. Probably riddled with bugs and security holes.
Am I randomly clicking on #hashtags, reading things, liking things, boosting things, finding a new hashtag, and repeating? Yes, yes I am. I heartily recommend it. I recommend you follow a lot of hashtags too. I recommend you often boost people you don't follow. I recommend you follow a lot of people you're not already following. I recommend you follow or ignore any or all of these recommendations and do your own thing.
I believe i have found a way to #monsterdon post without cluttering local timelines - replies in threads where SOMEONE ELSE is the OP don't get added to local TLs, but they do show up in hashtag feeds. So basically if we use the buddy system and someone starts a "hey post ur threads under this" post, and we reply to it (removing the @ so we don't bombard them with notifs), then we might be able to not flood the whole fedi every time. WHO wants to be my BUDDY next sunday?
edit: for ppl on mastodon, idk how the other apps do it!
What is it with people posting the exact same thing over and over again?
I follow the #privacy hashtag, and there seem to be multiple people/accounts spamming it with the same post. Sometimes repeated weekly, sometimes daily...
Is this considered normal and I should stop whinging and just block them?