Aaron Parecki

Orie Steele https://twitter.com/OR13b • Nov 19
I wish it was possible to do this with just GitHub workflow and GitHub pages.

Tell me about it! I tried really hard to push for simplicity in the spec, to enable exactly that use case, but sadly did not win that argument.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:17pm -08:00
Mike Jones https://twitter.com/selfissued • Nov 18
How did you choose your Mastodon provider?

or you can be your own provider! I wrote up some options that don't involve running your own Mastodon instance here: https://aaronparecki.com/@aaronpk

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:12pm -08:00
🇳🇱 Jeroen 🇺🇦 https://fosstodon.org/@jeroen94704 • Nov 18
@aaronpk That's not too bad! I had expected a much heavier message load. What are you running your instance on?

Keep in mind I'm only following just over 100 people right now. It's a bunch of hand-rolled code.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 11:50am -08:00
🇳🇱 Jeroen 🇺🇦 https://fosstodon.org/@jeroen94704 • Nov 18
@aaronpk What's the unit on the y-axis? If it's posts-per-day that doesn't look too bad, but I suspect that's not it 😀

Yeah it is! well not "posts" exactly, but all ActivityPub messages received per day.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 11:36am -08:00
🇳🇱 Jeroen 🇺🇦 https://fosstodon.org/@jeroen94704 • Nov 18
@aaronpk What determines that number? Is it something like the combined number of messages posted by the people you follow and the people that follow you?

There's a lot of things. Posts from everyone I follow. Replies and likes of those posts. If you delete a post it sends a Delete activity. There's also a *ton* of redundant account Delete activities sent for some reason too.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 11:18am -08:00
https://mastodon.social/@seldo/109366250730812494

100% agreed. of course in my case, the local timeline is just me 😂

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 10:37am -08:00
@eposvox@glitch.lgbt https://twitter.com/EposVox • Nov 18
I’m not going to tolerate a cult of reality deniers. Simply mentioning that most of company (bird) has been fired or quit is not political or biased.
If you’re going to continue hallucinogenic nonsense to everyone online, you’re going to find it increasingly difficult to exist

lol I had someone comment a much more polite version of that on my last stream and I was just like 🤦‍♂️ I don't get how some people are able to ignore the basic facts, or treat reporting on facts as "political"

Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 8:25am -08:00
Kat Moss https://social.platypush.tech/@cambridgeport90 • Nov 18
@aaronpk Ah. Weren't you the one who wrote it's PHP implementation? Or didn't you help with it?

I later rebuilt an PHP ActivityPub implementation as a separate service, API only. But I only use it for bots. I've been meaning to rip out my internal mess and switch over to that but I'm not excited about that project.

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:45am -08:00
Kat Moss https://social.platypush.tech/@cambridgeport90 • Nov 18
@aaronpk Isn't your whole site a custom pile of code? And that's why only parts of p3k are fully open source?

Yes, but the ActivityPub stuff in particular is pretty messy.

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:39am -08:00
Kat Moss https://social.platypush.tech/@cambridgeport90 • Nov 18
@aaronpk What's that running? I have always been curious since i found you up here.

It's a big sloppy mess of hand-rolled code. I would do things quite differently if I built one again.

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

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Fri, Nov 18, 2022 7:29am -08:00
Sam 0xEACD https://twitter.com/samuelgoto • Nov 18
@aaronpk speaking of indieauth, something that i mentioned to @DickHardt over IIW was that I really really really want to make my handle be @sgo.to.

Can't we come up with some form of convention that when you run into a @domain.example we do the indieauth thingy?

Ironically, the ActivityPub spec itself works just fine with plain domain usernames, nothing about it requires WebFinger or username based IDs. That was something I pushed hard for when we were working on the spec. But sadly Mastodon requires the @-@ syntax and WebFinger.

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 5:44am -08:00
Luria Petrucci https://twitter.com/LuriaPetrucci • Nov 18
They move too slowly…

I know, I can have hopes and dreams though

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Thu, Nov 17, 2022 8:56pm -08:00
Luria Petrucci https://twitter.com/LuriaPetrucci • Nov 18
No it’s really not lol

True but now they have a chance 😂😂😂

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Thu, Nov 17, 2022 8:45pm -08:00
Luria Petrucci https://twitter.com/LuriaPetrucci • Nov 18
FOMO much?!? 😆 I’m not saying my goodbyes yet but wow I never thought I’d see the day. But… You do not how to find me off Twitter still… RIGHT?!? 😳

YouTube is the new Twitter

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Thu, Nov 17, 2022 8:43pm -08:00
Tony Jordan 🥏 https://twitter.com/twjpdx23 • Nov 18
Class action lawsuit against elon musk for coercing tens of millions of people to participate in his humiliation kink.

oh no

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Thu, Nov 17, 2022 8:36pm -08:00
PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Nov 18
What did I miss? Why is #RIPTwitter trending? Is it really that bad?

Yes

https://twitterisgoinggreat.com

Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

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Thu, Nov 17, 2022 7:04pm -08:00
iJustine https://twitter.com/ijustine • Nov 18
prob, but at this point who knows

I don't think it's going to go out with a bang, but the slow decay has definitely already started. (the SMS verification codes don't work now)

Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

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Thu, Nov 17, 2022 6:52pm -08:00
T. Greywolf https://critter.zone/@t_greywolf • Nov 18
@aaronpk What, we can't just keep using Gary?

lol that's fantastic

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Thu, Nov 17, 2022 6:40pm -08:00
brian schrader https://twitter.com/sonicrocketman • Nov 18
Not for this *exact reason* but I have always been wary of "Sign in with X". I do not like having some other party own my users.

nobody could have predicted this 😂

but yeah, this is why the most common next step after logging in is these services asking for your email so they have a recovery path

Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

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Thu, Nov 17, 2022 6:30pm -08:00
Jeremy Keith https://adactio.com/ • Nov 17

Syndicating to Mastodon

Have you considered making your website directly accessible from Mastodon and others? Bridgy Fed seems like it would integrate nicely with your workflow, since you've already got most of the pieces set up, and you could choose to send individual posts to your Mastodon followers with a webmention.

https://fed.brid.gy

This way people could follow your website directly and you wouldn't need a separate account on any Mastodon server at all!

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Thu, Nov 17, 2022 8:47am -08:00

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Syndicating to Mastodon