andrew_s
@andrew_s@piefed.social
aka freamon
- Comment on For discussing Fediverse accessibility, where would you recommend me to go? Or stay here? 3 days ago:
That sounds like a tricky combination. Wherever you go, they'll be a good chunk of users who are unaware of / indifferent to how well the app they're using interacts with other Fediverse platforms. Mastodon has the userbase, and - as you say - is the place where the serious discussion of accessibility takes place.
As for Lemmy - it doesn't yet support alt-text, but when it does, I believe that the plan is to follow Mastodon's format (i.e. a 'name' field in the 'attachment' array)
- Comment on Lemmy subscribe to post 1 week ago:
Pièces?
- Comment on Lemmy subscribe to post 1 week ago:
"No", and "No". More info here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18710212 (includes reply from Nutomic)
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
It's a proper ActivityPub feature
- Comment on New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) 2 weeks ago:
Not yet, no. There's no API for clients like Boost to interact with. There's some discussion about one here
- Comment on New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) 2 weeks ago:
It does. This reply is from PieFed, and the vast majority of the content here has come from Lemmy via ActivityPub.
- Comment on Does the MXID in Lemmy's 'Matrix User' field actually show up or get used? 2 weeks ago:
I think it's typically hidden by UIs for privacy reasons, but you could see it via something like:
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://sopuli.xyz/u/cyrus | jq -r .matrixUserIdAs the other comment says, backends hook into Matrix if someone uses the 'Send Secure Message' option to contact you (I don't think that option shows if you don't both have a Matrix ID).
- Comment on An update regarding the future of m/AskKbin (where we are headed towards) - AskKbin - kbin.social 2 weeks ago:
!askmbin@thebrainbin.org
It won't show any posts if you're joining from a remote instance 'cos MBin returns empty outboxes for their magazines, but there's only one post there atm anyways.
Lemmy will probably error when clicking that link, so just wait a bit and refresh.
So this comment has one link, and two paragraphs about how it might not work as expected, but - other than that - yay Fediverse!, I guess, ha ha.
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Mastodon also has a different outbox format (one that's paginated), so that's the other reason their posts don't show from Lemmy. Solving the problem of following users with fake communities has also been proposed (by me, and also here), but it's generally a bad idea - a hack that will come back to bite you. If Lemmy were changed to integrate Mastodon more, it'd ideally be a big project - one that would fully embrace the idiosyncrasies of Mastodon (like muting replies and denying Follow requests) because ignoring them would lead to trouble later on.
- Comment on It's time for a hard fork of Mastodon (DRAFT, REVISION IN PROGRESS) 3 weeks ago:
His Bio does include 'software engineer', and he's worked at Microsoft before from here. I get the sense that the problem that people have with Mastodon is that they've subbed the PRs, but they've not been approved. For example, there's apparently a 12k line PR for Groups that the main guy isn't keen on.
It can be tricky getting your own code into other people's projects - the maintainers need to have a lack of ego that can be difficult to achieve. Generally, developers react better to code, than to ideas about code, but you want to convince them to look at future code, and not waste your time creating it, by floating the idea first, so you can end up in an impossible situation. Subbing big PRs only for them to be dismissed by a maintainer is what causes people to rage-quit the project altogether (for Lemmy, see Tesseract UI, and the 'bulletintree' guy)
- Comment on Are there ActivityPub servers that can see others without necessarily connecting to them to better enable connections? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I know what you mean. I originally typed out a reply based on that assumption, but then re-read the post, and decided against it, in case I was assuming the wrong thing.
Currently, if you bring in a remote community, your instance fetches the details of: the community; its moderators (including their avatars and banners); the instance the community is on; the admins of that instance (including their avatars and banners); and the last 50 posts.
If you separated that into tiers, tier 1 could just be the community details (inc. the sidebar), and the instance name, and you could maybe skip the rest until someone subscribed to it. I don't think you'd want to bring in every available community, even for tier 1, because of the 29k communities listed on lemmyverse.net, at least 20k are completely dead (about 6k of that is just spam from a disgruntled lemmy.world user). The advantage of this is that a local user could find the community based on a local search. They'd be greeted by an empty-looking community though, so they'd have to know that subscribing to it would be worthwhile (probably by visiting it on its host instance, although apps can make that process difficult by being a bit too clever for their own good).
There's an Issue for PieFed that been raised about using something like lemmyverse to 'know' about remote communities. I'm 'freamon' in that discussion, but neither me or PieFed's developer have pursued it much further.
- Comment on Are there ActivityPub servers that can see others without necessarily connecting to them to better enable connections? 3 weeks ago:
This feels like an impossible combination, where your local instance doesn't have data from other instances, but also knows that they are out there. When a user searches their instance for something, the answer comes from local storage, in the same way that google responds by looking at its local cache of a webpage, not the webpage itself.
- Comment on The need for a Fedi Union. 4 weeks ago:
I didn't read that thread as indicating hostility, more like he noticed a pattern of users being banned from a community on .ml and being confused as to why, so stuck a warning on it. One community on .ml has a warning, in the same way communities on beehaw have a warning that the instance has higher standards.
It's not like they refuse to co-operate (e.g. PieFed already has a place to put image alt texts, but will move it when Lemmy releases support for them; and it uses the 'audience' field that was originally proposed by Lemmy Devs)
- Comment on fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined. 4 weeks ago:
Moist is down at the moment, so - in true Reddit fashion - maybe Lemmy just hugged it to death.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
Now that most (all?) instances have switched to 0.19
Beehaw are still on 0.18.4. If/when they make the planned move to Sublinks, they'll effectively be on 0.19 in some ways I suppose.
- Comment on Figure 01, the robot closest to the humanoid machines of science fiction 4 weeks ago:
Hmm. Just re-checked. Still says the same thing for me. Maybe it's country-specific (I'm in the UK), or browser-specific (I'm using Chrome on Android), or being A/B tested (although the comment about all French newspapers doing this suggests otherwise).
- Comment on Figure 01, the robot closest to the humanoid machines of science fiction 4 weeks ago:
The cookie pop-up for this site gives you 2 options: 'Accept and continue' or 'Decline and subscribe' which I've never seen before and enters a new level of cookie choice abuse. (Accept is for 823 partners, btw)
- Comment on Lemmyverse historical data? 1 month ago:
I think it over-writes every time. If you just want subscriber numbers, I've got data going back to to last July. Let me know what community you're after, and I'll send it to you.