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- Comment on Followers-only replies are broken between pixelfed & mastodon (non-mutuals can’t see them) 2 days ago:
@occultist8128@infosec.pub "followers only" is a concept that is Mastodon specific, and Pixelfed supports it.
There's nothing to change at the protocol level itself.
Sending the reply to OP in your example would be a betrayal of the visibility of followers only... which is kind of silly but technically correct.
Better would be followers + participants, but that's up to the individual implementors to adopt.
- Comment on Federated Social Media with Topic-Based Following and Blocking? 1 week ago:
@pumpkindrama@reddthat.com NodeBB supports topic based following, because it's a forum and that's literally how it was done way back then.
You can follow tags as well.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Loops is newly funded, so that round is still active. I still wouldn't get hype about it until it happens though! 😉
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Unfortunately it actually isn't. NodeBB (me!) and Discourse are the only two forums that federate.
NodeBB has full two-way support with discovery features, Discourse is mostly broadcast-style (i.e. you can't find Lemmy posts from Discourse)
- Comment on Canadian Trekkies: SNW Season 3 will be airing on CTV Sci-Fi Channel 1 week ago:
@valuesubtracted@startrek.website CTV SciFi is still an add-on channel, which is unfortunate for freeloaders like me (I use an antenna which probably makes me a crusty old fart.)
- Comment on Which instance should i choose when i share a link? 2 weeks ago:
Theoretically, it shouldn't matter.
In the ideal case every connected server should host a full and complete copy of the data from the originating server (as @xkdrxodrixkr@feddit.org says, that's B)
Reality is a bit different, but not enough to warrant always picking B. Just share whichever you'd like, but B is the most right.
- Comment on Communities not existing on all instances is a big problem. 2 weeks ago:
Hi! We should chat.
NodeBB also does this, and currently still does. A category (group actor) can follow another category (also a group actor).
It essentially is synchronization of categories using 1b12.
Proof of concept does work but it needs reworking in some ways. The largest issue is that Lemmy itself doesn't understand when a group actor tries to follow a community.
- Comment on OF alternative fediverse? 4 weeks ago:
Tell me about it! There are some very cool people (i.e. @thisismissem@hachyderm.io) working on content classification and tagging so that the burden of filtering out this kind of content isn't borne by server admins directly.
- Comment on Voting in the threadiverse 4 weeks ago:
@snoopy@jlai.lu personally, since I create AP enabled software I am on the side of votes being public data. We already have enough issues with votes being out of sync with each other. Mixing in private voting is just asking for trouble.
Emoji reactions are neat, although niche to those softwares that utilise it. They allow for greater expression which is nice. They're useless for deriving value (for ranking purposes) unless you assign value to them.
- Comment on Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why. 4 weeks ago:
Does anyone remember way before Google had image recognition technology, the time they built a game that paired up random people on the internet, showed them each an image, and waited for them to both guess the same keyword?
It was gamified human powered taxonomy for meaningless internet points and it was hilarious (at the time.)
- Comment on Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why. 4 weeks ago:
@rglullis@communick.news A little bit, yes! There was a recent thread in the community I posted to where a discussion about the rather lacklustre search of various software took place.
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- Comment on Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange 4 weeks ago:
Very interesting article! I have immense respect for @jerry@infosec.exchange, he was one of the first people I found on the fediverse, and it's no wonder why, he's revered quite highly by others as being a generous and kind admin.
I do want to point out one thing, and that is that Mastodon has some design decisions that make it rather resource and storage intensive.
There are oodles of lighter software out there, some with even more features than Mastodon, and some with less. For example, snac.bsd.cafe (https://snac.bsd.cafe/) runs on Snac, which is fast as hell.
I am going to guess that a not insignificant portion of Jerry's bill is caching assets. Mastodon likes to save everything it encounters, videos, images, avatars, everything... forever (though I imagine this is customisable). Most likely the assets are viewed a handful of times in one day and never seen again... but you'll pay to store it forever!
- Comment on Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! It's something that I personally feel is more performant and future proof for other important things like private discussions (which Mastodon also doesn't support natively yet — mention spamming doesn't count.)
- Comment on Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon? 4 weeks ago:
Sure, check out my post about it here:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18844/backfilling-conversations-two-major-approaches
There are steps being taken in the right direction.
- Comment on Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon? 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy and lots of other software use a fediverse extension called 1b12 to keep everything in sync.
In a nutshell it means Lemmy communities can follow other communities, and they keep each other in sync. The same applies for other types of communities, like PieFed communities, Mbin magazines, NodeBB categories, etc.
Mastodon doesn't have a concept of community or categories, so they don't support this kind of synchronization.
- Comment on what fediverse software is similar to lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
There's NodeBB if you want a forum/BBS style UX for the threadiverse!
- Comment on Need help implementing ActivityPub - getting inconsistent results across platforms 5 weeks ago:
For what it's worth your blog does show up fine in NodeBB as well. Perhaps you are missing the
@contextproperty and so Mastodon is refusing to parse it? - Comment on Missing project? 5 weeks ago:
@m_f@discuss.online not directly, but there was a session at FediForum on Thursday that discussed the website and next steps for updating it. It's been stagnant for quite awhile but @evan@cosocial.ca and @j12t@j12t.social finally have write access to the repo and control of the domain.
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 5 weeks ago:
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eerie silence
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 5 weeks ago:
you can still have it with NodeBB!
- Comment on Bounce Helps You Switch Networks 5 weeks ago:
Hey @deadsuperhero@lemmy.world have you tried updating to the latest NodeBB? You can post to Lemmy communities from there too!
- Comment on Missing project? 5 weeks ago:
@m_f@discuss.online ActivityPub.rocks I bet?
There's exciting work planned for updating this site!
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 1 month ago:
@pineapplelover@lemm.ee you can only access by entering a semantically correct invocation of
taras run on a POSIX box from 1978. - Comment on Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users 1 month ago:
I would say that Pixelfed is closer to the microblog space than it is the threaded discussion space.
It's essentially microblogging except with an image media focus (or video, in the case of Loops.)
To each their own, some people communicate better using pictures, some better over short text, some better over long-form text. There's a space for them all :smile:
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ series beams into Hamilton 1 month ago:
@miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com everything in Hamilton is sketchy if you're not from the Hammer 😝
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ series beams into Hamilton 1 month ago:
If you live in the GTA, you should definitely check out The Cotton Factory! Cool art and makerspace.
Unfortunately in one of the sketchier parts of Hamilton, but that seems to be par for the course for these types of places.
- Comment on Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is Weird 1 month ago:
@ussmojave@startrek.website yeah, I'm watching it now! It's pretty well done.
- Comment on Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is Weird 2 months ago:
To be fair, Human music theory is also weird.
A lot of what we teach our kids about music theory is rooted in the firm foundation of "it is this way because it just is, so just remember it."
Like why is the circle of fourths and fifths the way it is? Because it just is. Remember it. When you're learning key signatures why doesn't the key match the signature (D major is F# and C#,. but Bb major has a Bb and an Eb?!)? Because it just is. Remember it.
It's no wonder music theory gets completely lost on kids. It doesn't make any sense!
- Comment on Deep Space Nine characters 2 months ago:
sir that's just a picture of Eddington.