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Aaron Parecki

  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Dec 16
    Testing the ability to post to my website without sending every post out to my Mastodon followers. If you can see this post, you're either following my website directly, or I broke something.
    Aaron Parecki
    oh, or you're seeing this on Micro.blog... hmm should I treat that as a separate syndication target for my posts too?
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
  • Hendrik Mans 🐝 https://norden.social/@hmans   •   Dec 16

    @aaronpk That sounds bad :( If a site implements the spec version of ActivityPub, what are its chances of being feasibly well integrated into the Mastodon part of the Fediverse?

    Aaron Parecki
    Extremely low, basically zero. You pretty much have to read Mastodon's docs and do interop testing with Mastodon to have any expectation of it working.

    The inverse is true too. There's also a lot in ActivityPub that you *don't* need to do to at all to interop with Mastodon and others.
    Portland, Oregon • 41°F
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  • Hendrik Mans 🐝 https://norden.social/@hmans   •   Dec 16

    I've started reading up on #ActivityPub. So far I had been assuming that the "@user@host" scheme was baked into the protocol, but apparently it isn't, and it's perfectly capable of integrating user-less domains into the Fediverse.

    Have I misread it? (I admit I only did surface level reading so far.)

    If I haven't, wouldn't this mean that instances could (theoretically) also just act as hosting providers for #IndieWeb style domain-as-identity accounts?

    Aaron Parecki
    You're not wrong. The problem is the ActivityPub spec by itself doesn't give you enough to implement a working system, and Mastodon filled in the rest with decisions they made on their own.

    So what actually exists is mostly a Mastodon-specific protocol built on the ActivityPub framework.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F
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  • Nelson Minar https://tech.lgbt/@nelson   •   Dec 16

    @aaronpk I don't think Mastodon is going to ban you for posting to Mastodon. (Are you auto-copying tweets? I gave up doing that, the social contexts are too different.)

    Aaron Parecki
    The contexts haven't been too different for me up until recently, so I might have to rethink that. Right now I post everything on my website first, and my website sends it out via ActivityPub as well as to Twitter. It isn't really an "auto-copying" thing as much as my website is just the central source of truth.

    I do always have the option of *not* sending a post to Twitter, but I haven't previously considered ActivityPub a separate "destination" as such.
    Portland, Oregon • 40°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    If only it were that simple http://tantek.com/2011/url-diagram.html
    Portland, Oregon • 36°F
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  • ElonJet Lover https://mastodon.social/@elonjetlover   •   Dec 16

    @josephramoney @JxckS We should start an ElonJet Television channel. 24/7 live tracking of Elon's Jet!

    Aaron Parecki
    sounds like a job for Owncast! https://owncast.online
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F
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  • jw https://twitter.com/jw   •   Dec 16
    Thinking only Chipotle check-ins will be allowed on Gowalla. All other check-ins will get you banned.
    Aaron Parecki
    Free burrito absolutist?
    Portland, Oregon • 38°F
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  • Austen Allred https://twitter.com/Austen   •   Dec 15
    Here’s the patent for it they tout on the site.

    They pretty much patented their very unique data infrastructure.

    11/10 marketing.
    Aaron Parecki
    I mean, those distributed Interfaces and operational systems aren't going to just interface and operate with themselves are they!?
    Portland, Oregon • 35°F
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  • Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/   •   Dec 12

    Lately my job seems to be about making sure Mastodon doesn’t turn into a denial-of-service attack on my servers. 🙂 Sorry for the flakiness today, partially caused by how we were handling a flood of messages from Mastodon.technology’s impeding shutdown. Fixed the issue.

    ✴️ Also on Micro.blog

    Aaron Parecki
    wow I just checked my logs and I've also been getting about 1800 delete requests per day from it.

    By my count that means about 6 more days of this before they finish sending deletes for all the accounts.
    Portland, Oregon • 44°F
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Dec 11
    Maybe we should all start referring to Elon as "she" and waiting for her to correct us, then we'll see who's forcing their pronouns on who 😇
    Aaron Parecki
    👏👏 woooowwww good job everyone for completely missing the point 👏👏
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F
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  • Christina Warren https://twitter.com/film_girl   •   Dec 12
    1Password isn’t perfect but there is nothing, to me, that would make paying for Bitwarden (no, I do not want to self-host my password manager. That’s how you get ants) better than paying for something from people I’ve known for 15 years. But that’s just me.
    Aaron Parecki
    "that's how you get ants" 😂😂😂

    I agree tho, the new 1Password has some issues compared to the previous version, but it's still better than the alternatives.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F
  • Nick Farina https://twitter.com/nfarina   •   Dec 12
    Submitted our business name change request to IRS nearly two years ago, and it still has not taken effect. Calling them on the phone (the only way to verify EIN) results in "we're too busy, call again another time." Guess I'll just keep calling every day?
    Aaron Parecki
    I had to do the same to verify my 2020 returns. I had to file my 2021 returns even tho my 2020 weren't processed yet.

    Eventually I started calling every day the minute the office opened, and one day finally got through with only a 2 minute wait.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 45°F
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  • Mike Topola https://twitter.com/MikeTopola   •   Dec 12
    Numerous people have been banned on twitter for making fun of him.
    Aaron Parecki
    Yeah I hope this is not my last tweet
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
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  • Brandon Paddock https://twitter.com/BrandonLive   •   Dec 12
    “Forcing your pronouns upon others” - what the frack does this even mean?

    Nobody is forcing anything on anyone. Respecting people’s choice of pronouns is just a nice thing to do. It costs you nothing and shows respect for your fellow humans. Nobody is “ostracized” by this.
    Aaron Parecki
    Maybe we should all start referring to Elon as "she" and waiting for her to correct us, then we'll see who's forcing their pronouns on who 😇
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
  • Bryan Robb https://mastodon.social/@inthedeltawaves   •   Dec 11

    @aaronpk cool. I’ve been making hot sauce for a couple of years now, but it’s been almost exclusively lacto-fermented. I’ll have to give something like this a try.

    Aaron Parecki
    I recently tried doing that and only one of the three batches I made was edible 😬 and it scared me off doing any more fermentation experiments 🙈
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
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  • Lawrence Newcombe https://twitter.com/CloudSundial   •   Dec 10
    Oh nice to see! Nothing too surprising but good to see the sub-scenarios for BFF, token mediating backend etc spelled out. And a good reference for token storage options
    Aaron Parecki
    Glad to hear it! Suggestions are welcome right now, we're getting close to wrapping it up!
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
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  • Patrick McLaughlin https://mastodon.social/@McPatrick   •   Dec 8

    @aaronpk
    I sometimes wonder who some of the folks there are who I am “friends” with.

    There are friends who I know, and then…

    Aaron Parecki
    Sometimes I am reminded of people I last talked with nearly 10 years ago and I don't know what happened there
    Portland, Oregon • 38°F
  • Evan Prodromou https://prodromou.pub/@evan   •   Dec 8

    @aaronpk je me sens vu 🖐🏼

    Aaron Parecki
    ja ich auch, tschüssi 😇
    Portland, Oregon • 38°F
  • Creator Liaison https://twitter.com/YouTubeLiaison   •   Dec 8
    Not sure what you mean? If a creator deletes on of their video, it’s gone from YouTube
    Aaron Parecki
    Sorry yeah, I was talking about your recommendation of unlisting *instead of* deleting. Unlisting it would only prevent new discovery of it, but wouldn't stop people from viewing it from their watch history or by sharing the link.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F
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  • Creator Liaison https://twitter.com/YouTubeLiaison   •   Dec 6
    Deleting a video removes it from every viewer’s watch history, which could affect future recommendations

    Fine if you want to change audience, but if you just don’t want the video visible, unlisting it and removing it from playlists is the way to go!
    Aaron Parecki
    Interesting. That also suggests a viewer who has already watched it could go back in their history to find it and watch it again. So it's mainly just gone from recommendations and new viewers, but not actually impossible to watch again, right?
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 40°F
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