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box464

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Coder, manager, dog dad. Tech tinkering is my joy. Be kind.

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box464, to random
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julian, to random
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There have been some scattered discussions I've seen over the past year that mention that @pfefferle's WordPress ActivityPub plugin federates their blog posts out as an as:Note, and that the only reason this is done is because Mastodon only treats as:Note (and as:Question) as a first-class object and relegates anything else to a fallback handler that takes a short snippet of the content, and shows a link back to the original source, thus losing any in-app benefits (boosts, replies, etc.)

Whether this is actually true or not, I do not know. So that's why I'd like to ask Mattias — or anybody else with some context — here.


For reference:

  • as:Article: Represents any kind of multi-paragraph written work.
  • as:Note: Represents a short written work typically less than a single paragraph in length.
  • as:Page: Represents a Web Page.

I have also noticed that Lemmy, perhaps out of principle, sends out an as:Page for new generated content, and only the replies federate out as as:Note. It has unfortunately led to some assertions that Lemmy's federation is "broken", even though it is arguably not the case.

@nutomic, care to weigh in?


I don't even blame Mattias for opting to send everything out as as:Note.

End of the day right now it doesn't matter how Mattias or Nutomic represent their higher-level collection of data, because Mastodon is the largest implementor and neither they — nor anyone else I know of, for that matter — treat anything that's not as:Note or as:Question specially.

But that ought to change. The question is how, but this WG is not at the point where we start throwing around decrees and making up standards.

What's important to me right now is what the landscape looks like right now, and why that is the case.

N.B. The discussion here will eventually make its way to online real-time discussion at one of the future WG meetings.

box464,
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@pfefferle @simonwood @julian @nodebb Curious how you set the “priority on image/video” in ActivityPub? I didn’t know that was possible!

box464, to homelab
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This week, I was working out of town and wanted to see if I could survive on this little Chuwi palm sized mini pc. The answer is yes…barely.

I’m not very tolerant of slow response rates on my daily system and that WAS there if I had Teams, Slack, three browsers, vs code and a zoom meeting going all at the same time. But it survived.

box464, to mastodon
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It’s good to know Bluesky has the same issue explaining the concept of Unlisted…I mean…Quiet Public…I mean…Discouraged visibility…posts.

#Mastodon #Bluesky #UnlistedPosts

box464,
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@kolya I always thought “Not Promoted” would work but on the down low is pretty good!

davidbures, to random

Well boys, just booked my first flight ever. It will happen on Monday.

I’m kinda nervous 😅 I’m not afraid of dying on it, but I’m honestly only scared of…getting sick. That, to me, is a fate worse than death 😵‍💫

box464,
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@davidbures Make sure to tell the flight assistant it’s your first time flying. You might get wings! 🥳 Happy travels.

box464, to ukteachers
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Visiting family and found this kit in the closet. I think it was my nieces so the nerd runs deep around here. “Ages 8 to 108” 👵🏽

#Toys #Education

seaotta, to random
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Font Awesome raised $721,620 to build an open source library of web components. Their goal was $30,000.

I need to collect my thoughts and put it in a blog post but I'm curious what the community's thoughts are on this because that is not a trivial amount of money.

As a web platform PM working in open source and trying to find ways to get funding for projects...was this good marketing? Is it selling a different solution to what's already out there?

box464,
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@seaotta By supporting the kickstarter, business and hobbyists alike were able to lock in a drastically reduced price on the annual subscriptions of the Pro products, as well as a lifetime license.

box464, to random
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Doing some family tech support and ran into this dialog. First time I’ve ever seen a piece of software tell me to remove it! Following its advice.

box464, to random
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It’s 2026. All platforms are now at least partially federated, including TikTok. The U.S. government turns its eyes to Misskey and bans it.

What issues would they have to overcome to make it work? Who would they even call to a committee hearing to grill?

Truly asking because I don’t think it would be impossible, just more annoying and time intensive to implement.

box464, to fediverse
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Been on the TestFlight of this one. @feeeed is incorporating content from everywhere. While the configuration options says “Mastodon Handle” any fediverse handle I’ve thrown at it works so far.

PeerTube. Lemmy. Firefish. IceShrimp. Friendica. Threads. All alongside blog feeds, Reddit, YouTube, news services, personal photos, birthday reminders and more. The only thing missing is the ability to interact - like or reply direct from the interface. ❤️🥳

A video of an iPad showing the feeed app. A Catodon.social account is added to the feed and shows up immediately, alongside personal blogs, photos, pixelfed accounts and more.

box464, to random
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Just found this custom @MonaApp icon today and it’s a winner winner chicken dinner.

ChaosKitsune, to random

If anyone has any more useful key plugin ideas I'm listening.

box464,
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@ChaosKitsune @NumbersCanBeFun So happy to see this! I did some work with Firefish / IceShrimp plugins but as you probably know they aren’t compatible with misskey’s newer version. Would it be alright if I linked to your blog post from this repo?

https://codeberg.org/box464/firefish-plugins

box464,
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@ChaosKitsune @NumbersCanBeFun love that idea! I had started one for Firefish but didn’t promote it much. Definitely needs someone vetting submissions.

https://snips.box464.com/catalog

box464, to random
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It's been a Final_FixedFinal_FinalUpdate_Updated_Revised_Corrected_Fixed.csv type of day.

dtgeek, to TikTok
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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24137638/senate-passes-tiktok-ban-bill-divest-bytedance-foreign-aid

box464,
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@dtgeek Looks like the timing might be right for @loops

futurebird, to random
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Three years ago she murdered her sister. Her sister thought they would be queens together but Penta had her own ideas. She has only five legs and nearly 2000 daughters who I manage with a modified vacuum cleaner (it’s an automatic asperator.) I’m almost done moving them into their new nest. It’s been so much work. I’ve only killed four ants so far. Please don’t tell Penta. She is not patient with incompetence.

box464,
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@futurebird You should write a book about this and slowly give tiny hints that this is about an ant colony, leading to a full reveal in the final chapters. Plot twist!

box464, to random
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Watching the rabbit r1 launch. Something makes me want to root for this scrappy developer, but the bro energy is high in this room.

https://www.rabbit.tech/

box464, (edited ) to fediverse
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Owncast and Peertube news on the same day!

https://joinpeertube.org/news/newsletter-2024-04

box464,
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@Mrfunkedude That’s what happens in my brain when two video related apps make announcements on the same day. Fixed, thanks!

box464, to fediverse
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After a short hiatus due to some technical updates made my Roku, Owncast (a federated live streaming service) is available again on the platform.

In addition, a new Owncast channel is now in the app, too!

Also don’t forget Owncast has an iOS app out as well. Lots going on with the platform.

https://channelstore.roku.com/es-us/details/2179326b6b85869a1a3a18d48ca76de6/owncasts

box464, to threads
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Threads has added achievement badges during special events. I wondered if the fediverse has similar and sure enough there are ideas around this! I know Sharkey has achievements but not sure they are federated.

https://activitybadges.org

#Threads #ActivityStreams #fedidev

lumaa, to random
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I, again, have not been very active still, but I have excuses to explain this:

  • I’ve been having a lot of ups and downs recently so that’s not very good.
  • I was sick for a few days, and I probably still am a little bit
  • I’ve been having terrible sleep lately, usually sleeping 5 or 6 hrs per night to 3 or 4 hrs per night.

Anyway, I’ve seen people following the @Threaded account and I’m very happy that it gets more and more traction, although things haven’t moved a lot lately, due to the reasons given above. I’ve mostly been working on side-projects and/or private projects (that will make me earn some buckaroonies aka. Euros.)

Before I leave once more in my shack, here is a good, recent , song you might like: https://music.apple.com/fr/album/calling-after-me/1734187714?i=1734187905

box464,
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@lumaa @Threaded Take care! We will all be here when you’re rested and ready.

panos, to dotnet
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I promised I'd be giving updates on #Iceshrimp's #dotnet C# rewrite -a brand new fedi platform really- so here's where we're at at the moment! The backend's basic functionality is more or less finished, although there will undoubtedly be stuff to fix and improve during beta. So theoretically you could use it, but we don't have a frontend yet so you could use it only with masto apps atm. However, the frontend is where the focus is going now, and we plan to have a basic/working frontend soon so that we can release our first beta in a couple of weeks or so!

We expect performance and server requirements to be comparable to #Akkoma. Things are about to get exciting!

box464,
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@panos I’ve been impressed with the project management and code base I see when I check in on the iceshrimp dev community. Wishing the best for this one, can’t wait!

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