#TiddlyWiki seems nice in concept, apart from it running in the browser and its community spread to the fucking wind. How on earth am I supposed to find cool themes or plugins (which are completely necessary to reasonably use it, particularly for SAVING)?
I found a plugin that supposedly let me save over S3 but it seems to only work with S3, so I can't save to Backblaze. There's also an official plugin for saving to browser internal storage, but that doesn't help me access it from my phone, if I wanted to.
What's the point if I have to host a server or connect it to Google to use it anyway? Why not spin up, say, MediaWiki? Or a Google doc or site?
Or a local notebook app like Paper, Obsidian, or Logseq.
@blake you could cursorily investigate its saving options. At $WORK, I could "host" and save to $harepoint with its documented method leveraging WebDAV. I remember finding WebDAV servers available to run even on Android, and they could save to a #SyncThing folder ... it felt like the least complex standards-based open option.
My Bridge Wizard now includes support for Bridgy Fed's ATProto-ActivityPub bridge in both directions! It tells you briefly how to opt in, and warns you that it might not work as expected.
decided to look into #solid (the Tim Berners-Lee related one) and, why the hell isn't it in everything by now, or at least able to be?!
Like, why can't I have my files on a Solid pod show up in Nautilus yet?!
In particular, I think it might be really great for a "metaverse passport," a common ID that would include a display name and avatars, and you could potentially use Solid's existent profile and friends stuff too.
Can you use XSLT with RDF? Like, to build a static site or blog type thing with it?
It would be nice if some servers could also pre-render XSLTs on Solid things, so you could have a Web-log and a Gemini-log from the same source (discriminating by output type, probably), or a pretty profile page rendered off of your ~/profile/card#me...
Hey, what if I went a little further and let Things have RDF-marked redirects and headers, executed by the server, basically an equivalent of the Cloudflare Pages _redirects and _headers file formats?
Could you set up a server so that some external domain can get A/AAAA/CNAME'd to it and it serves a pod from it? I'm thinking, a podserver is hosted on fightingthe.foo or something and you could have podname.fightingthe.foo host the actual pods themselves? Or, even better, let people use, say, example.cloud to host their pod and make it available at personal.website, maybe as a kind of alias? Or, maybe just host a sub-folder there, so you can use it as web hosting... the possibilities are endless!
@blake there's many reasons, to be honest, between "RDF is hard" (it has a steep learning curve), to Inrupt basically having a stranglehold on development (disclaimer: I used to work for Inrupt), to no one knows what it is: to some it's a quadstore, and they really hate the fact Inrupt stuck a file/resource interface on it.
The focus is on selling this to corporations rather than making a good platform for everyday users.
#Fediverse idea: a honeypot MITM instance that server admins/mods can use to report who is accessing specific instances. Admins can use that to get rid of problematic users to begin with instead of letting them bring Nazi bullshit onto their instance.
I kinda wish #iceshrimp and/or #sharkey had a tumblr-style queue, I have a ton of unrelated Thoughts but don't want to spam the timeline with them.
It could work if there was a Iceshrimp/Sharkey compatible external client and if they had support for the post scheduling APIs (or just ran in the cloud).
I'm considering starting a new project (yes, I know), an #XMPP External Component that is a full MIX implementation -- particularly including MIX-MUC, crucial for backwards compatibility.
At this point I'd only do it with a sponsorship or grant or some such. I don't want to take on the responsibility and sacrifice my free time for it just for it to blow up in my face, I'd much rather have some support structure in place.
@blake You could create a project on OpenCollective under the XSF as a fiscal host: https://opencollective.com/xmpp and see if people are interested in donating for it. But MIX is probably a dead-end with little support and seemingly interest by XMPP clients.
@debacle
Do you think we should expand the feature we support through Adhoc commands ? It would be nice to be able to do most things through the client. If client developpers are willing to push this, we are all for it !
@ejabberd@debacle@blake@prosodyim yes please, support as much as you can through ad-hoc commands, it's so useful and handy, and perfect for automatization.
And yet I choose to federate with it, under careful supervision and with no hesitation to block at the user level (which I have done several times, with brands).
That's because I'm a cishet white man. I face little threat from Threads.
If I can put this another way: I'm on the team that can try to get "good" Threads users to come over here, like the Green brothers and Joe Biden (people I want to hear from). For many, many other people, the risks outweigh this, so they'll choose to block Threads, which is a valid choice and for them is the correct one, far and away.
Harassment over it is not the answer and will solve nothing.
After seeing how the XZ maintainer's burnout and mental health decline was exploited to the potential detriment of the whole world, we're totally going to be supporting our developers more, right guys? We're totally going to fund critical OSS and pay maintainers enough to hire on other maintainers to take the burden off of them and reduce burnout, right? Right?
Something that makes this so difficult is that there are so many of these (critical infrastructure projects) just littered everywhere. This kind of thing could happen anywhere, and probably has happened undetected elsewhere for years! Finding all of these would be a day job of its own. Then you have to figure out where all that money is coming from, and what's important enough to get how much money.
Has anyone tried checking #liblzma#xz against known symbols to see what mismatches? Any differences in these differences between 5.6.0 and 5.4.5 (I expect there should be)?
#fediverse app idea: voice/audio oriented. so, kinda like Pixelfed but for audio. The idea is that it's entirely voice-navigable and accessible too, maybe uses text-to-speech to read text notes, maybe use speech-recognition to create a transcript of the note and set it as the alt text. Maybe even stick a native mobile app with it and have it run when the phone's locked until you stop interacting with it or swipe off the app, so you can use it through your headphones, earbuds, or what have you. I feel like the blind or visually impaired might like this, as well as anyone who doesn't want to stare at a screen all the time.
I'm beginning to think that the (Mastodon/ActivityPub) Fediverse actually can't be what we're trying to make it (i.e. the definitive social web). Mastodonians are so brazenly hostile towards things like search and quote posting that would help everyone from Black people calling out impostors to experts offering helpful commentary, and bridges that bring more people on¹, and towards anyone who knowingly or not violates the norms. If you bully everyone off the Fediverse, nobody's going to be here. You'll have your little sheltered corner and that's it. So many respectable people have been bullied off of here, to the point that Threads and Bluesky with all of their moderation problems are more comfortable to them.
We also just don't have the tools necessary to effectively expel hate or control spam. (Or rather, we do, but they're not added in or deployed really anywhere.) Instead, we have feudal forum admins who ban everyone they disagree with, cutting thousands of people off from their friends at a whim. Even corporate moderation isn't this bad.
Defederation culture is already making Fedi unusable for pretty much fucking everyone -- like COVID, everyone knows someone who's been defederated, and there's a pretty good chance you have been or will be defederated too. And once it's happened, there's no going back to how it was before.
Plus, our software is built for the old web where federation was the norm, not the new web many people are used to. This makes it very confusing for newcomers and old-timers alike. This is probably the one real advantage Nostr has. Bluesky kinda does this but they're mostly a centralized silo (for now) so maybe they don't count for this point.
The unfortunate thing about having a world that could be whatever you want is that nobody can agree on what it should be.
¹ I totally understand the problems with this; my point was that blocking so many people from joining is counterproductive. See my points about the software and the moderation tools.