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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 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 -
@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 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. -
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. -
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Portland, Oregon • Wed, August 8, 2018 5:57pmTime to film some kittens! — with anomalily
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manton
https://micro.blog/manton
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Aug 8
@aaronpk There is a tweet import! But I want to rethink it, because often importing thousands of tweets kind of overwhelms the normal blog posts. I may disable it until I can separate tweets out better.
ah yeah, having everything in one list would definitely get overwhelmed with tweets! A simple way to start might be to have a separate page on the site that has a list of only articles. -
100% related to this article that I'm going to try really hard to turn this into a promo-only account from now on. ("promo" meaning "promoting interesting projects or information"). If you want to engage with me as a person, follow me on Mastodon. (1/5)
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Seems like a good opportunity to make a tweet archive import for micro.blog! I'm seeing a lot of people deleting their tweets after downloading their archive.
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Ben Balter
http://Ben.Balter.com
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Aug 8
What do people use these days to plan complex, multi-stop personal travel? Are travel agents still a thing? Some fancy new app? Just internet a bunch and book it yourself?
Google flight search + a cocktail + a few hours on the couch -
That said, there has never been a better time to join the #IndieWeb and http://Micro.blog has made it easier than ever before. I can’t recommend it enough.
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The service itself isn’t, but it’s built entirely on top of open standards like RSS, JSON Feed, Webmention, Microformats 2, Micropub, and other #IndieWeb tech. It’s the open web as it’s meant to be!
