Can’t wait for the follow up post decrying PeerTube for only allowing videos, or Bookwrym for only allowing book reviews. Just because it’s ActivityPub doesn’t mean it has to be a Twitter timeline.

Once a major actor in a decentralised network starts to mess with the protocol, there are only two possible output: either that actor lose steam or that actor becomes dominant enough to impose its own vision of the protocol. In fact, there’s a third option: the whole protocol becomes irrelevant because nobody trust it anymore.

You mean like Mastodon? Where’s the angry diatribe about Mastodon not allowing posts to have more than 4 pictures despite other platforms allowing more (Pixelfed allows up to 20 for example)?

They mention SWICG’s data portability spec, I assume they’re referring to LOLA: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola

Just lemmy.org.uk for me.

Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world

Hexbear runs an allowlist, they only federate with instances they select.

Imagine devoting your precious life to making MATE for GNOME 3.

Looking at their Twitter and it’s apparently going to use GNOME. Wonder how that’s going to work with GNOME removing X11 support.

The secure chat option is something called Matrix, which is a separate service that doesn’t integrate like Reddit’s chat. Lemmy just supports being able to set a Matrix account as the place to reach a user.

Armin Ronacher, creator of the vastly popular Python Flask and Jinja framworks, comes out in defence of DHH, saying his racist diatribe about the ethnic make up of London was in fact not racist, and the state of Israel, that it’s apparently fine that it remains an oppressive ethnostate in order to ‘preserve its particular cultural identity’.

https://lobste.rs/s/necwp9/praise_dhh#c_r1jvrx (archive)

https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/115531823601853748

Obviously it’d only be a subset of HTML. No website that uses user-submitted HTML (Tumblr, AO3, Royal Road, etc) actually allows the full suite of tags.

Cool!

Image markdown style formatting to allow more advanced control of how images are rendered. e.g. 

You might as just let users write the <img> tags directly at this point, at least then you won’t add noise to third party apps’ accessibility stacks.

(I honestly wouldn’t be opposed to letting users write HTML directly, it was one of Tumblr’s best features imo)

This just seems to be the legitimising of Ruby Central stealing RubyGems and Bundler. Hell, the person who originally did all the maintainer fuckery on the GitHub repos (Hiroshi Shibata) is a member of Ruby core, so this could have very well been the plan all along.

Interestingly, the person who added these to Bluesky say they’re a bad idea: https://blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/?author=hailey.at&post=3m2mldbsmys2t

Grokipedia aims for maximum truth through first principles and physics. It replaces partially masked evidences of how legacy media operates, rewriting with complete accurate context that cuts through the BS.

Christ, these people are so fucking stupid. Can’t wait to see how Nazi autocomplete solves the problem of induction.

Also, ‘fun’ fact. The second result for first principles on ddg is a blog post by a self-help guru sucking Musk off so hard you’d think they’re being held at gun point.

he starts by mentioning html swipers, and one he made himself. The one he made is pretty dogshit on anything but a phone.

The best part is that’s it just a bunch of <div>s. Like, how are you going to rile against modern software and then handwrite HTML like you’re the latest js framework.

Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.

What, you can absolutely ban people on a decentralised network. You may not be able to expunge someone from a part of the network they control themselves, but you can expunge them from the part you control. Bluesky has this power and has used it in the past.

Masto interprets a Note set as as:sensitive without a summary to mean ‘blur any media attached, but don’t collapse the text content’. I believe the same is true for non-Notes, but obviously without the summary = CW logic.

So a summary included in a non-Note is not CW’d by Mastodon currently.

I know, I was just saying that it prevents a non-Note from being CW’d, as the summery is used as the post’s content.

If it has a summary, I will use that as the content

But isn’t that how Mastodon handles content warnings? Baffling that they’d do it like that frankly given that it prevents long-form content (when masto actually starts supporting that) from being CW’d.

How they see it: https://sfba.social/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115267196743748430

Do note that Mastodon forces a redirect to the original instance for non-local posts, here’s a direct link to the comment: https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach/115267230182946226

It seems that threadiverse posts are being seen by more mastodon users now, which is great, but maybe the formatting could use some improvements?

There’s actually some related (yet-to-be-merged) changes to this on the Mastodon side, add support for links in Attachments (this is how Lemmy and the like federate links).

I don’t think anything’s changed, just two users finding a post in a hashtag (Lemmy adds the community name as a hastag for posts). I’ve seen some masto users complain about this in the past on the #lemmy tag.

Right now blacksky.community is an app that uses Bluesky’s AppView, which in turn uses Bluesky’s Relay. They’re working on their own AppView (which will have the equivalent of local-only posts) and that will use their Relay.

Interesting, from what I understand of ATProto, this would be hard to do on protocol, it’ll be fascinating to see how they do it. Maybe something off protocol like the recent bookmark feature Bluesky got.

I didn’t mean to undercut your point though, they often talk about PDSs as analogous to web pages, so your “different search engines” analogy is very accurate, it’s just not quite there yet.

I’d love to take credit for this, but the ATProto docs themselves make this comparison which is where I’m getting this from.

if I recall correctly either in (((streams))) or Forte (or maybe both) MIke implemented the nomadic identity over ActivityPub as well

This sent me down a bit a of a rabbit hole. It seems (streams) used an updated version of Zot, Zot/11 but was renamed to just Nomad. I can’t find anything about this, the (streams) repo only contains the spec for Zot/6, so I’m not sure about it’s APub compatibility. Apparently, Nomad had been discontinued in Forte in favour of pure APub, anyway.

If you’re thinking about this kind of stuff for Lemmy, it’s also worth looking at https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-ef61-portable-objects/3738

Oh, I know about Silverpill’s work, it’s really interesting! I even mentioned it recently. I’m glad we have someone smart like them working on this stuff.

I do think some kind of separation of user data from servers, like what AT Proto does, is actually quite desirable. I just don’t like that PDSes can have their data harvested by whoever, I think data sharing with a server should be opt-in.