grishka

grishka, 1 month ago to fediverse

#Smithereen 0.7 is out, finally making it practical to run a server with open signups.

This release brings too many changes to list here, both internal and external.

• All-new moderation tools: role-based permissions, revamped reports, new ways of limiting user accounts, and so much more!
• All-new media storage: Smithereen now keeps track of references to files, simplifying the code, and adds support for S3 object storage.
• Tens of minor bug fixes and UX improvements.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

grishka, 6 months ago to fediverse

#Smithereen 0.6 is out! 🎉

And with it, the complete federation feature parity with Mastodon. New features include:

• Direct messages
• Privacy settings
• Followers-only posts (from other servers)

#mastodev #activitypub

grishka, 2 months ago to fediverse

Is there an #ActivityPub server where I need to parse HTML for <link type="application/activity+json" href="..."/> to get to the JSON representation of an object? I want to add support for this in #Smithereen but I need something to test against.

#mastodev

grishka, 4 days ago to fediverse

So, #Smithereen no longer requires a username when signing up. You instead get assigned one automatically, of the form "idXXX" where XXX is the ID for your user record. You can change it later in settings if you wish. Current Mastodon versions handle this change no problem.

The username is only visible in two places:

• The URL of your profile
• When someone mentions you
  So it's not very important. Definitely not important enough to be a required field when you register.

#activitypub #mastodev

grishka, 13 days ago to random

You can now choose how you see comments in #Smithereen. This is most probably very buggy.

grishka, 22 days ago to fediverse

I made a FEP for an important part of my groups implementation: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/db0e/fep-db0e.md

#ActivityPub #mastodev

grishka, 23 days ago to fediverse

After all these years, #Smithereen finally has this remote interaction thingy when you click a like or share button while logged out.

#ActivityPub

grishka, 9 months ago to fediverse

Working on private messages in #Smithereen and I'm wondering how much sense CWs make for them. From Mastodon's PoV, "private messages" are just posts. They thus share all the same properties. In my implementation, however, messages are distinct from posts, both in the UI and in the database. In my UI I don't have anywhere to display that content warning as a spoiler without it being super awkward. I can use it as a subject line however 🤔

Any thoughts?

#activitypub #mastodev

grishka, 4 months ago to fediverse

While I'm currently working on many (and I mean many) New And Improved™ moderation tools in #Smithereen, I also added a tiny user-facing thing because clicking CWs one by one was tedious to say the least.

#activitypub #mastodev

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grishka, 4 months ago to fediverse

A question for those who might want to run a #Smithereen server in the future — is support for S3-compatible object storage for storing media files a desirable feature? I'm refactoring media file storage anyway so could as well add an abstraction layer that would allow this sort of thing.

#activitypub

grishka, 2 months ago to random

Apple is in its "fuck around" phase with the EU right now. Can't wait for the "find out". It's gonna be gorgeous.

grishka, 19 days ago to fediverse

In case someone wants possibly the longest thread on the fediverse for testing purposes, here you go: https://mastodon.social/@brownpau/112322747861701800
With the way I store replies in #Smithereen, this will soon exceed my limit of 256 levels ¯_(ツ)_/¯

#activitypub #mastodev

grishka, 5 months ago to random

Their webfinger endpoint (/.well-known/webfinger), which is essential for federating with Mastodon, is still not up tho 🤔

grishka, 3 months ago to fediverse

#Smithereen is about to become GDPR compliant 😅

I like my approach with deactivation period better than what others do. For example, @pixelfed deletes accounts immediately and it turns out people change their minds on this stuff sometimes.

#activitypub

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grishka, 7 months ago to fediverse

Are there any ActivityPub servers that implement and federate presence statuses for actors (online/offline)?

#ActivityPub #mastodev

grishka, 26 days ago to fediverse

Reposts are now done in #Smithereen. You can only make "quote-posts", not Announce reposts because Announce is too confusing and doesn't fit my vision. However, Announce reposts are no longer this half-assed thing like they were before. They now show up in people's profiles and use a different icon from my native reposts.

Also: new UI for likes.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

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grishka, 1 month ago to random

Proper support for reposts in #Smithereen, finally!

grishka, 7 months ago to random

Overall, how satisfied are you with these random popups in various Google products asking you how satisfied you are?

grishka, 2 months ago to fediverse

I want an opinion. If you have a rule to not allow signups with some email domain, would you expect it to also apply to signup requests, when your server is in manual-approval mode?

#Smithereen #ActivityPub #mastodev

grishka, 4 days ago to random

Dear websites, there's exactly zero cases when I would like to download a PDF instead of viewing it in the browser. Don't do it. Just don't.

(if I'll ever make my own web browser, it would intentionally lack support for the Content-Disposition header)

grishka, 3 months ago to random

Before Taylor Swift, there was Taylor Objective-C

grishka, 8 days ago to fediverse

Mention autocomplete in #Smithereen (desktop only).

#ActivityPub