Skip Navigation

User banner

julian

@ julian @community.nodebb.org

Posts
51
Comments
269
Joined
13 yr. ago

Co-Founder (NodeBB) | Husband 🤷‍♂️ and Dad 🙉 to three | Rock Climber 🧗‍♂️ | Foodie 🥙 | Conductor 🎵 | Saxophonist 🎷

✅ Small teams craft better code.🇨🇦 Made in Canada🗨️ Federating NodeBB with funding from NLNet ♥️🇪🇺

  • Idle thought re: account delegation

    Jump

  • evan@cosocial.ca that's cool, so hopefully I'll have something to test against besides another NodeBB server 😁

  • Idle thought re: account delegation

    Jump

  • evan@cosocial.ca no, I haven't read that actually! I did now and I'm feeling a bit reassured that I came to the same solution, although it's currently high level and theoretical.

    That there's an FEP written for it is great as well. Are there any existing implementations of this FEP?

    As an aside, my forum hadn't seen your post before, so when it pulled it in it automatically back filled all of the comments too, because pfefferle@mastodon.social added support for 7888/f228 awhile back! Neat to see it outside of a testing context (no pun intended) heheh.

  • Federated Social Media with Topic-Based Following and Blocking?

    Jump

  • 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.

  • What are the forum-like communities that are federated?

    Jump

  • Loops is newly funded, so that round is still active. I still wouldn't get hype about it until it happens though! 😉

  • What are the forum-like communities that are federated?

    Jump

  • 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)

  • Categories following Federated Accounts?

    Jump

  • ska there is an issue with category sync with Lemmy, since they do not support categories following their communities.

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5354

    I'll have to take a closer look at Peertube.

    Are you able to follow those users using your local account, not via the ACP?

  • Bug: unable to follow some friendica accounts

    Jump

  • Canadian Trekkies: SNW Season 3 will be airing on CTV Sci-Fi Channel

    Jump

  • 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.)

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • 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.

  • What drew you to ActivityPub?

    Jump

  • > We have the potential to create something far more human and revolutionary than any of the ad-based mainstream platforms.

    Right on! That's the refrain I hear a lot from people who discover ActivityPub and then build software for it.

    Building something out of principle is a wonderful approach. I hope someday were in a position so that you don't have to sacrifice principles to make money.

  • Communities not existing on all instances is a big problem.

    Jump

  • Yes. When the reply is posted to C, it is sent to A. A then sends as:Announce to C, as well as any other communities that follow it.

    B seems to be irrelevant here.

  • Communities not existing on all instances is a big problem.

    Jump

  • 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.

  • NSFW

    OF alternative fediverse?

    Jump

  • 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.

  • Voting in the threadiverse

    Jump

  • 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.

  • Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why.

    Jump

  • 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.)

  • Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why.

    Jump

  • Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange

    Jump

  • 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!

  • Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon?

    Jump

  • 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.)

  • Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon?

    Jump