Ciantic

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by Ciantic 4y ago
Yes it's weirdly broken, but it seems to be hard problem to solve. Servers aren't connected to each other unless someone follows someone on other server, thus it's a bit hard to build a full graph in one server to browse prof
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by Ciantic 4y ago
By allowing everyone to register on their app to their own servers? Mastodon is now prioritizing large servers with open registration in joinmastodon.org for this same reason. They re-ordered the servers some weeks ago so that open registra
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by Ciantic 4y ago
For intro and info about Software Transactional Memory which allows real fearless concurrency: "Beyond Locks: Software Transactional Memory" by Bartosz Milewski https://bartoszmilewski.com/2010/09/11&#x
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I wish more of these alternate CLIs could act as wrappers for GPG. I would be happy to use enc if it just called GPG cli commands (or gpg agent*) underneath to do it's tasks. I know it's a boring to do wrappers, but I can't i
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The social graph on Twitter is hugely valuable. Even if they went bust and the service would be unavailable for a year, the social graph and brand value are important. One reason Mastodon and others have trouble is that people don't wa
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Twitter wouldn't die if they don't pay bills, someone would buy it for huge discount. It seems like it would be the best way forward, depending on who would buy it. A lot of people don't follow news or Elon drama, the brand s
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Edit, I corrected my wording in my post. It's moderated server for sure, I was referring to this section: > We only require servers we federate with to follow one simple rule: respect a user's right to disengage. Offending serv
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Individual servers will sort this one out. There are already instances like qoto.org which have full-text search, quote toots, and other features. If people of the instance demand it, the search feature will be implemented. Qoto.org have ot
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I feel like it was squandered as well, but I don't blame anyone on that, Mastodon core team employed their second person last month full-time. When the next wave comes I hope if Mastodon can't get its act together there are commer
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End of an era. I like that he sees that ActivityPub should be so much more than Mastodon. "a truly universal timeline" of various things on the internet. For that to happen we can't limit ourselves to just Mastodon, but start
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I would say it's much easier, because it supports even RSS, you just add .rss at the end of user account and you get RSS Feed, e.g. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss Of course it's all up to the instance owners
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I can't find any mention of rclone [1]. It would be intersting to know how this compares to rclone copy or sync, because it uses threading, rsync doesn't. [1]: https://rclone.org/
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Absolutely, I support E2E and signatures. It's funny that there is nothing new since GPG, it is decentralized identity with E2E encryption and verifiable signatures. But original poster was questioning the delivery mechanism. Given tha
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How is this different from let's say email? It's in the specs what servers should do if it receives a message. If someone sends a message addressed to just these people the server then delivers it to just these people? Of course i
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That is given, how else could it work? This is pub/sub, it's not pull based, so every time you release something it is pushed to the subscribers, your followers servers. I would like to have a bit of pull based things as well, but
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Hmm, to my knowledge, followers only posts are ActivityPub feature, where you just shovel the message to inboxes of just followers. It is not sending it to all servers? It's also possible to send messages to part of the followers as we
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by Ciantic 4y ago
Eugen Rochko, the developer of Mastodon had written about Search that if it comes it should be for the home timeline and own posts. It would help a little bit, at least you'd find old posts from people you follow. It would suit some, b
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by Ciantic 4y ago
There is also Passage by Age's creator Filippo Valsorda: https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage
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by Ciantic 4y ago
Through your browser, it's playable using this Archive link: https://archive.org/details/duke-nukem-forever-1996-side-scr...
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It's possible, but there is no advertisements, and most servers are run by volunteers. Right now, with current tech stack, which isn't most efficient I heard Leo Laporte who runs TWiT Podcast network and ~5000 user https:/&#
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by Ciantic 4y ago
My only gripe is that Paul Graham chose mas.to, there are famous people running instances that know a thing or two. For instance, Alex Stamos is running https://cybervillains.com/ it's relatively small, and these famou
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by Ciantic 4y ago
WP is PHP 8 ready, but plugins aren't. Some hosts are dropping PHP 7.4 support in January, I know it's causing problems for those who haven't done good maintenance deals.
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As someone who has written in past a lot of PHP and Python, I find it interesting that PHP devs can do a lot of breaking changes, and don't get a huge amount of flak for it. Python 2 -> 3 change really was painful for Python communi
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I wanted to post this, as more people are activating their blogs. I don't see any downsides, but there might be some like what if he gets a lot of bot followers? I wonder how this will tax his server if he gets e.g. 100k followers, 1 m
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Joining the Fediverse with WordPress(lucahammer.com)
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I don't think masses care about federation, they care about ease of use, features and community. Same reason masses register for any service really. Currently biggest problem is ease of registering: Suggested way to register is through
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Yes you are right, but IMO it's algorithmic curation already, like the parent said. It's just not from your timeline but from whole fediverse / server you are on. It's probably not that difficult to add one based on your
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Do you people know that "# Explore" section on the right of Mastodon already lists posts which are gaining traction? It also lists news which are trending. It says: "These posts from this and other servers in the decentralize
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There is constantly threats like that in Fediverse. For instance some threatened to defederate if Tumblr implements ActivityPub and don't remove Ads and what not. In reality biggest servers still federate with most servers. With latest
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It can be as verbose as you want. This guide as well as others suggests using concrete error types for libraries but anyhow "catch all" method for applications. There is disadvantages for going "catch all" libraries as t

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