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Thursday, August 9, 2018
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Darius Kazemi
https://social.tinysubversions.com/@darius
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Aug 4
I think the idea that a new Mastodon user is supposed to pick an instance based on affinity/interest is the number one thing that prevents people from joining. I think there needs to be a retooling of the messaging to make it about trust.
People don't join email services because of affinity. They do because they trust. They trust Google will be around for a long time. Or that hushmail won't sell their data. Or that Hotmail is easy to use. Etc etc.
I completely agree. I think it's because of the convolution of the account and the instance timeline. If you could just as easily follow an instance timeline from any other instance then all of a sudden it doesn't matter which is your home instance. -
Darius Kazemi
https://social.tinysubversions.com/@darius
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Aug 9
@aaronpk Haha so says another self-hosted instance-of-one user :)
As an aside, do you experience weird caching things? I do think most beginners should join a populated server because otherwise they are going to be seeing a lot of seemingly-blank profile pages when they click through to profiles of people who are mentioned that their instance hasn't interacted with before
Yeah that's definitely a Mastodon caching issue. If Mastodon went and fetched a few posts from someone's profile it would fix it. I'm not actually sure why they haven't done that yet.
My software isn't even Mastodon, I made my site interact with the protocol directly. So when I click on someone I just visit their profile page on their instance directly, so that avoids the issue for me. -
@aaronpk Haha so says another self-hosted instance-of-one user :)
As an aside, do you experience weird caching things? I do think most beginners should join a populated server because otherwise they are going to be seeing a lot of seemingly-blank profile pages when they click through to profiles of people who are mentioned that their instance hasn't interacted with before
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Darius Kazemi
https://social.tinysubversions.com/@darius
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Aug 9
@aaronpk Ah nice. Are you using something homegrown or Pleroma or is there another ActivityPub compliant thing out there I haven't encountered?
Totally homegrown, I decided to see what it would take to write as little code as possible to interoperate.
There are a few other alternatives out there right now. This is a fun site that tracks instances and different projects: https://the-federation.info -
Darius Kazemi
https://social.tinysubversions.com/@darius
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Aug 9
@aaronpk oh awesome. Can you share the code with me? I am writing my own extremely stripped down server that is meant for bots *only*, so it lets you create new accounts, make/delete posts, and it accepts follow requests, and that's basically it! (also allows the creation of new accounts via API because bots) Anyway, another dirt-simple reference implementation would be a huge help since there are not good "here is what ActivityPub messages should look like" resources I can find
My site's source code isn't public, but I might be able to throw the files up just as samples.
I started off by reading this post https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/ as well as the followup, https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/how-to-make-friends-and-verify-requests/
But ultimately those only got me so far, I had to eventually hop in the IRC channel and ask Mastodon and other developers about some of the details. Even the ActivityPub spec doesn't tell you enough to make it work right now. I wish it was simpler! -
Darius Kazemi
https://social.tinysubversions.com/@darius
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Aug 9
@aaronpk Yeah I am working off those, currently at the IRC/Discord stage. I got the stuff in the blog posts working but weirdly I'm having problems where Mastodon likes my keypair signing for most things except for an "Accept" follow message. Even though it's the same keypair and code. (Messy reference code would be great, even if you just emailed me a zip or something)
haha okay! I will unapologetically send you a pile of code, with the only documentation being the inline comments! 😆 -
As of a few weeks ago, Quill now supports this extension. If the server returns a list of supported vocabulary, Quill disables the links to any interfaces that use unsupported vocabularies. This should help reduce the confusion when micro.blog users use Quill, since now they won't end up on an interface that fails to make a micro.blog post.
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David Celis
https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis
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Aug 9
i put potato chips in some scrambled eggs this morning and it gave me life
i've been adding crushed up corn chips into grilled cheese sandwiches and it's amazing -
Twitter has decided its a safe space for bigotry and hatred..
This doesn’t mean anyone else has to use it, so:
- I deleted all my tweets & unfollowed all
- I removed twitter syndication from my micropub endpoint, nanopub
- I’ll be working harder at writing here.
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Matt Haughey
https://mastodon.cloud/@mathowie
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Aug 9
years later it's still fucking wild yahoo bought tumblr
whoa I had this exact thought this morning -
@danielpunkass @manton It's been a long-time coming and we're still experimenting with the post list query for Micropub, but it'd be great if you guys could take a glance at the current discussions and let us know if there is anything missing.
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jk
https://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/c4933ad176bf4057on
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Aug 9
No, there’s a trash folder, same as calendar
There's no "sort by date deleted" in the trash tho 😉 -
wow, this sounds like the worst part of everything about this era of the internet
