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silverpill

@silverpill@mitra.social

Developer of ActivityPub-based micro-blogging and content subscription platform Mitra. Admin of mitra.social instance.

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silverpill, to random
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If only there was a way to integrate peer to peer payments into federated social media without relying on Stripe and Google... Maybe someday it will be discovered!

https://mastodon.social/users/dansup/statuses/112489844955494674

tadano, to random
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Now that I have used Mitra for a bit, I think I can comment on it a bit

WOT I LIKE:
>stupidly lightweight, barely uses RAM/CPU resources, see pics related from boot and longer uptime
>greentext by default
>restarting is quick
>default UI is nice, no bullshit and loads quickly, hovering over emojis zooms in on them
>mitractl is a really nice CLI tool
>install + maintenance is piss easy, especially on Debian courtesy of the .deb packages
>dev isn't retarded, is in fact pleasant, polite and responds very quickly to inquiries (see: doing a quick release to add deleting accounts in the web UI when @splitshockvirus brought it up)

WOT I DON'T LIKE:
>no emoji reacts, even husky seems to filter out notifications for them
>no emoji autocomplete
>replies in threads kind of janky (I know dev is working on it)
>federation seems kinda janky, making the relay account for it is a cool solution but I don't know how to follow dedicated relays on it (e.g. https://relay.fedi.agency/actor)
>also find that federation is slow but I can't really quantify it in any useful way
>no quote posts (not terribly salted peanuts about this but mite be cool to see)
>no markdown options for posts
>kinda wish there was a web UI for administrative stuff
>wish default UI was more customizable (e.g. like how you can change the background, logos, front-page, etc. on Pleromer) I could be full of shit assuming you could just muck with the assets directly for results

Overall I really like it and if emoji reacts + autocomplete were implemented along with the replies I'd definitely make this my main instance software. Looking forward to seeing where this goes

CC: @silverpill

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silverpill,
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Thank you for a detailed report @tadano !

Yes, docs and missing features will be gradually added over time, I agree that reactions, emoji autocomplete and admin UI are very nice to have.

I have a couple of questions/comments:

>no emoji reacts, even husky seems to filter out notifications for them

The default Mitra frontend should notify about incoming emoji reacts. Are you saying that these notifs are not displayed in Husky?

>replies in threads kind of janky (I know dev is working on it)

Could you elaborate? They seem to be working fine on my instance.

>no quote posts (not terribly salted peanuts about this but mite be cool to see)

You can make a quote post from a thread. Open the post menu and select "Repost with comment". It is also possible to add a quote to a post using the special wiki-like syntax: [[activitypub_id]] (see the doc).

>no markdown options for posts

A subset of markdown is already supported. Do you need some markdown feature that is not currently supported (e.g. headings)?

>wish default UI was more customizable (e.g. like how you can change the background, logos, front-page, etc. on Pleromer) I could be full of shit assuming you could just muck with the assets directly for results

Currently it's a bit complicated because you will need to re-build the frontend: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-web#customization
I want to improve that though.

@splitshockvirus @Tadano

silverpill,
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@tadano @Tadano The limit is 50 emojis per post, which seems to be a sane number (it exists to protect server from being overloaded).

I'll add a mitractl command for importing emojis from other servers in the next release.

silverpill,
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@tadano @Tadano Nope, that limit is hard-coded. But the next release is almost ready, give it a day or two.

silverpill,
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@Tadano @tadano

2.19.0 has been released. Now you can do:

mitractl add-emoji emojiname https://pleroma.social/path/to/emoji.png
silverpill,
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@nihilist @monero Consider the following situations:

  • Bob and Arbitrator are colluding against Alice
  • Bob and Arbitrator are the same person

I think this system needs a higher authority to function properly. And there's a simple non-technical solution to this problem. If you don't agree with Arbitrator's ruling, you make the case public and provide proofs. As a result, Arbitrator's reputation is destroyed.

Someone can even create a rating service similar to @kycnotme that will list arbitrators with good reputation

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