@sowa@kainoa There is also the problem of ActivityPub object IDs after migration of the db/instance. One would, ideally, need to keep the objects IDs redirecting from the old URL to the new one.
This is necessary because other software in the fediverse may look them up to pull for updates or when people click/search for old cached posts IDs.
Fediverse musings: folk saying you don't really need a migration of your posts between servers are implicitly minimising the value of something from months ago. Having just 'boosted an old toot' 😎 of mine from 5 months ago, it feels like a Mastodon :mastodon: apologists' view for an obvious shortcoming. And let's be clear ...
Me, 6 months ago?: a "born again pachyderm" 🐘
Me, today?: a "Fediverse explorer" :fediverse:
It''s the biggest reason I'm an early adopter checking out Calckey now -- the team there *get" this 💜 and ... I'm testing out how their new history migration works ie. Mastodon :ms_arrow_right: Calckey and Calckey :ms_arrow_left_right: Calckey migrations. It's coming
@Natasha_Jay It'd be better if everyone just admitted it was a missing feature. There's lots of things I've posted ages ago that I still refer to or find funny.
@emmetoneill
Isn't the whole point of the fediverse to not (just) have a few big servers, but (also) many small ones? If I look at the average portfolio on mastodon.art (which I think defederates too harshly) and on misskey.io (which I agree allows disturbing content), I'd say there is still a huge group of artists who aren't represented on the fediverse at all. Perhaps pixelfed will bring in more. Perhaps DeviantArt or ArtStation will set up their own instance.
@kerfuffle In principal I agree with you. More servers with smaller numbers of people is the answer.
But as of now a huge number of western (for lack of a better word) artists have congregated on mastodon.art, the majority of Japanese artists have congregated on misskey.io, and these things don't see or talk to eachother at all.
I also don't trust corporations to fix this, especially since both DeviantArt and ArtStation have been really terrible about data scraping and AI.
User backfilling => backfilling the post history of people you follow but on your Calckey server for completeness? Presumably time-limited to some extent?
When you look at the MAU (monthly active users) for the top 5 popular #fediverse projects, you see just how many active users Mastodon has compared to the rest.
I've been seeing some speculation about Project #Barcelona. I think they real concern should be that it will be a play similar to the old Microsoft book: embrace, extend, extinguish. Why do I think this is what #Meta is planning?
First, if they were just building a straight #Fediverse applicaaion, it would have been a no brainer to grab #Mastodon, #Misskey or any of the other platforms, tear apart the code and write their own. If all they were looking to do was have feature parity, and maybe add a bit of their own spin on it this would have only taken a few weeks with the manpower they have.
Second, their business model is one that requires them to dominate a space to sell advertising. Currently the big social media sites (FB, Instagram, TikTok, etc.) dominate the attention of pepole. This means that they will extend the ActivityPub model by using an algorithm based model to keep people's attention.
Third, they will do what they can to build the largest market share - ie, they will try to dominate the Fediverse by doing what they can to drive users to their platofrm. This will be done through extending the functionality in ways currently supported (which will later go to the W3C to become part of he ActivityPub spec).
Now, as to the "cultural change" this will cause in the Fediverse... I don't think we'll start seeing a big impact. They do have moderation, and I think they will learn quickly that if they don't moderate things pretty tightly they won't be able to enact all of the parts of their plan. And I think those plans are going to be more important.
And yes, I do think data scraping from the messages and profiles, will be an issue. Something that the #Fediverse should take seriously.
Oh, also, I will speculate they won't support profile migration...at least not out from Barcelona, but probably in-bound.
@ivan18rod Ohh if you want to federate with the fediverse you must use the ActivityPub, Nodeinfo and Webfinger standard.
The api provided there is to create alternative client for the misskey software.
This documentation from maston: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/
seems pretty clear to me but I encourage you to read the specs as that are the standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
@pad Let me clarify. My projects uses adapters to connect with a certain software on the fediverse. I have the Mastodon adapter, and I am trying to build a Misskey adapter, but I don't know how the API is structured.
I would like to sincerely thank @genewitch , for opening up a ticket for making the #Misskey web interface more accessible to all #Blind & #VisuallyImpaird users.
Comment among the #GitHub thread if anyone has ideas/thoughts, and spread the word!
Alright, the #pages functionality on #CalcKey... needs work. (And maybe #MissKey too - haven't seen their version yet.)
Really - it boils down to the Markdown subset. Pages uses regular post-level MFM - which means no headings, no lists, and no ![]() embedded images.
Images and headings have to be added as blocks - and they don't even work right. Narrow images scale up to the entire width of the page, and headings, or "sections" have only one block.
There is no bulleted list support either - you have to do that manually by using unicode characters.
Also - blocks can't be moved, only added or deleted. There is a move button but it doesn't seem to work - or maybe its a menu button that doesn't work. Either way - doesn't work.
Not only does this make the editing experience a bit painful - making it so that you have to leave the text and add blocks separately - it also means that you can't just write something in an external markdown editor and simply copy into a page - you have to manually split up the text into blocks so you can insert images or sections in-between.
Also - it's very undocumented. I don't know what the variables or the scripting do - you have to figure those out on your own.
That's not to say that pages suck entirely, the interactivity that you can add with forms, variables and scripting is frankly excellent. But if you can't add the content you want, the way you want it - that interactivity is just useless.
So, looking at three #Misskey clients on the Mac so far, those being #Kimis#missririca (also on Android) and #Misscat, all of them if running on a Mac using #Voiceover (where Kimis is a Mac exclusive), all three of them have some issue or another at the moment.
I can confidently suggest Calckey.social
It's lit up 🤩, early adoption "dogfooders" like myself and maybe 50-100 more really in the details
The devs are involved
The dialogues are amazing, and a lot are local server only
New possibilities and ofc it's a work in progress
Come dip your toes at least...?
@cliffwade
I hate having multiple accounts, same as you I think tbh
It's community dogfooding stage. There's no other choice I can see if I want to have a decent look, and I certainly do as there's a lot of potential... if not imo a finished article
It has to be personal evaluation. We all use Mastadon a bit differently. Plus app support etc on iOS and Android