Aaron Parecki

Pablo https://twitter.com/pablogl • Dec 18
Is your website stack open-source? I'm keen to implement something more than just webfinger on mine and am looking for inspiration.

It's not, but mostly because it's pretty messy. I do have this which is a standalone ActivityPub project meant to integrate into other sites, needs some updates though. https://github.com/aaronpk/Nautilus

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Sun, Dec 18, 2022 12:34pm -08:00
brian schrader https://twitter.com/sonicrocketman • Dec 18
Did you build the activity pub stuff yourself or are you using something under the hood?

I built it directly into my site in like 2018. Finally paid off haha

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Sun, Dec 18, 2022 12:33pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Dec 16
Let's see if I get banned for linking to my own website, which you can also follow from Mastodon.

https://aaronparecki.com/@aaronpk

wow I didn't expect the policy to get written to actually prohibit linking to other platforms like Mastodon... good thing my website is not running Mastodon and is my own first-party platform, not third-party.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Sun, Dec 18, 2022 12:08pm -08:00
Nathan Barry https://twitter.com/nathanbarry • Dec 17
We don't charge bandwidth fees, but we wouldn't be able to support files that large. Could you host them on S3?

hm, I suppose so, but I'd want to use the S3 signed request thing to avoid persistent links to the files being available. Looks like Shopify does that built in with their digital downloads app.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 31°F

Sat, Dec 17, 2022 9:07am -08:00
Brett Slatkin https://twitter.com/haxor • Dec 17
The alternative federated protocols seem too complicated. I see a lot about the need for progressive enhancement on the web, but when it comes to communication systems people seem to abandon that requirement. Part of my nostalgia for RSS comes from how easy it was to get started.

Yes! This is exactly why we've been taking this more incremental approach with #IndieWeb building blocks, like adding Microformats to turn a web page into a parseable feed, then Webmention to enable conversations, etc.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 31°F

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Nathan Barry https://twitter.com/nathanbarry • Dec 17
You can learn more here: http://ConvertKit.com/commerce

Our team will migrate you for free!

I'm considering moving my Gumroad listings to ConvertKit or Shopify, it's not clear whether there are bandwidth fees for the digital downloads.

Here's my product, note the file sizes https://aaronpk.tv/stress-test/

Portland, Oregon • 28°F

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Sat, Dec 17, 2022 8:30am -08:00
Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet • Dec 17
If you can’t easily come up with an example, be open to the possibility that what you are thinking of… is not a thing.

This feels like a subtweet 🙃

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

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Fri, Dec 16, 2022 6:26pm -08:00
Sobral https://mastodon.social/@sobral • Dec 17
@aaronpk, thank you. Any article on how you did it?

There are some links in the lower half of that page actually!

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

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Sobral https://mastodon.social/@sobral • Dec 17
@aaronpk , is this a "real" Mastodon instance just for you or a custom implementation?

It's ActivityPub built into my own website

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

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Fri, Dec 16, 2022 5:20pm -08:00
devilgate https://micro.blog/devilgate • Dec 16
@aaronpk I’m swing it on the Micro.blog timeline, if that’s any help.

oops yeah I forgot about micro.blog! It counts the same as my website feed right now.

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Fri, Dec 16, 2022 2:54pm -08:00
zorn https://micro.blog/zorn • Dec 16
@aaronpk I think you broke something. 🤷‍♂️

I forgot about micro.blog! It counts the same as my website feed right now.

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Fri, Dec 16, 2022 2:54pm -08:00
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.

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

Fri, Dec 16, 2022 2:32pm -08:00
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?

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?

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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Fri, Dec 16, 2022 2:00pm -08:00
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.)

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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Fri, Dec 16, 2022 12:55pm -08:00
Marko Denic https://twitter.com/denicmarko • Dec 16
URL Anatomy:

If only it were that simple http://tantek.com/2011/url-diagram.html

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

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Fri, Dec 16, 2022 9:46am -08:00
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!

sounds like a job for Owncast! https://owncast.online

Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F

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Thu, Dec 15, 2022 6:44pm -08:00
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.

Free burrito absolutist?

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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Thu, Dec 15, 2022 5:58pm -08:00
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.

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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Wed, Dec 14, 2022 9:59pm -08:00
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

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

Mon, Dec 12, 2022 6:11pm -08:00

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