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by mal-2 3y ago
You're being redirected to chaos.social because you don't have an account on those other servers.
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by mal-2 3y ago
It's a fair criticism but I don't feel so fatalistic. This would look a lot different if everyone was opening this post on their own home server instead of chaos.social. Unfortunately there's no way to construct a link that r
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by mal-2 3y ago
The federation occurred when the post was made, it was sent out to other servers and stored there. Then it got served to those users directly, without further contacting chaos.social. To understand how it's decentralized, search for @j
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by mal-2 3y ago
No, all of these redirect to the original server when viewed by not-logged-in users. The original server has chosen to redirect to web.archive.
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by mal-2 3y ago
The promised ability* to leave. There's no other providers on the network to move to.
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by mal-2 3y ago
maybe people who had their phrase stored in LastPass?
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by mal-2 3y ago
I think we're talking past each other a bit. I know we were talking about browsers but then you mentioned the API for following. There's two ways to interpret that: the way the client communicates the request to follow to its home
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by mal-2 3y ago
Oh interesting I didn't realize. Are you talking about the `/api/v1/accounts/:id/follow` endpoint? I would have assumed it used the ActivityPub Follow activity but I'm not familiar enough with it. ( https:
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by mal-2 3y ago
I think that's the right solution. There has been discussion on it before. on Mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679 on Misskey: https://github.com/misskey-dev/m
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by mal-2 3y ago
This is a cool change. I am a bit disappointed at the prominent 'Follow' button on the embed though. That button won't do what users think it will, because it opens the linked account on its home server, which is not the plac
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by mal-2 3y ago
It's pretty hard to avoid putting individuals into any buckets whatsoever. How do I discover community on Nostr? I connected to a few relays but nothing seems to be themed or organized around interests. On Akkoma I can make friends w
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by mal-2 3y ago
I think the web-based protocol is the correct solution. Unfortunately it has been shot down already in Mastodon github issues, so another fedi project would have to take up the mantle on solving this. Akkoma has 'Remote Follow' wh
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by mal-2 3y ago
Replies, boosts, likes, follow requests.
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by mal-2 3y ago
There have been proposals to use a custom URL scheme to accomplish this (you don't need the link to point to the person's home domain at all), but they were shot down by Mastodon lead Eugen due to browser support and UX concerns.
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by mal-2 3y ago
Yeah it bothered me at first too. A relic of the euro-centric history of the network. It helps (marginally) to think of it like Star Trek's Federation.
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by mal-2 3y ago
Scale isn't the whole story. The most noticeable thing for me on fedi was that people actually saw my posts and interacted with them. All the DAU on Twitter doesn't matter when you need to pass the Great Filter of the algorithm to
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by mal-2 3y ago
I think this is really overblown. It only matters when you see someone's handle posted elsewhere. When you discover them naturally in your timeline you can just follow them. It could be solved with a new URL protocol scheme easily (ins
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by mal-2 4y ago
I know Akkoma has this with the 'Remote Follow' button, I'm pretty sure Misskey does too. It's really not that hard but you have to enter your home server domain for it to create the redirect.
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by mal-2 4y ago
Gotcha, yeah it is more difficult if you got there from a profile link on a website, and browser plug-ins can help with that. I was just confused about the idea that 'browse to profile and click follow' doesn't work, that wor
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by mal-2 4y ago
I'm confused by this, this only happens if you discovered the user outside of your normal server (like if you opened a link to their profile/post from an external source). If you discovered them within your feed just click their p
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by mal-2 4y ago
htmx glosses over the difficult part, which would be keeping track of the relationship between all these hx-post and hx-target attributes, when they're all just strings in markup. That glossing over is why you don't see any well-e
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by mal-2 4y ago
Superdeterminism hasn't been ruled out yet.
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by mal-2 4y ago
I'm assuming stock grants or residual payments are never part of the deal either, right? That's just completely exploitative of their dev talent.
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by mal-2 4y ago
The green bubble means iPhones have downgraded the conversation to SMS, or MMS for group chats. It results in lower quality attachments being sent, and fails to implement some nice features that would be available with RCS - like typing ind
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by mal-2 4y ago
When you see this topic discussed, invariably iPhone users chime in to say the exact same thing. They like the status symbol and have come to identify with it, even though it results in a worse experience for them. The internet is built on
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by mal-2 4y ago
Definitely agree. In the time it took you to mock your the state management, the backend endpoints, and the browser localStorage to isolate your unit, you probably could have written it in Playwright end-to-end with nothing mocked. The you&
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by mal-2 4y ago
Does YouTube organic discovery work for anyone besides toddlers? I can't remember a time I was suggested or autoplayed a video that I actually was interested in.
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by mal-2 4y ago
Oh no worries I didn't even mean to criticize you, I was mostly responding to emptyfile's post. I agree with you sometimes there is nuance lacking but at the same time there's often more context and nuance than what you hea
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by mal-2 4y ago
Yeah I don't have numbers to back it up so I can't say for certain. I wouldn't agree it's negligible though, because I often am served educational content that's not an interest of mine (eg nutrition, DIY repair, wr
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by mal-2 4y ago
I can only speak from my bubble, fair enough, but I almost never see this aspect explored in reporting on Tiktok. The articles always focus on the algorithm, never the actual content and community. Evidently something is quite different f

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