NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

@jenniferplusplus @helge my understanding of it is that bsky goes about it from the other end, they don't link from the post to its likes, they expect some appview to backlink the likes to the post. if that's your model then sure, you can create a new lexicon for emojireacts and stuff them in a new repo and... still expect the appview to stitch this together?for example, here's a post: https://atproto-browser.vercel.app/at/did:plc:tt7idshnkaltasf5cd6irpwj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb4d4dkwo22ehow many likes does it have?

@julian Well, there are object types that Mastodon couldn't even handle if it wanted to. For example, it doesn't have anything to handle an Event-type object with. I don't think Gargron would build an event calendar into Mastodon just for Event-type objects, not unless enough people pester him to do just that.#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon

@djsundog anyone who kicks out the jams must be really jelly

@trwnh @AT1ST @oblomov the challenge is definitely much greater in a federated system.In our case the caches aren’t the end all be-all and we have quite mature caching at multiple layers. The edge and end user caching is more a UX improvement (particularly for reducing latency) rather than to protect our servers. Expensive things should have their own backend caching and invalidation logic.I see what you’re saying though.

Oh yeah, I know about that. I figured out how to put the niobium coating on those things without affecting the sphericity in any meaningful way. Even a few angstroms of irregularity and the thing could shatter in space and ruin the experiment. Ah the good old days...

@natalie i think it can be done but not by most people’s definitions of “microblogging”. the missing piece is context. does that make it magically transmogrify into a forum thread idk, but this is the web so it’s ok to blur those lines a bit. i just hate that everything is oversimplified but some types of complexity are okay but not the kinds that are actually useful (and align with reality).the metamodel is busted, you’re right

@dodatus_dranapat@activitypub.academy hello there! (that should be a blob)

@hornblende god i wish we had control over what we could show on our own goddamn profiles but i guess this just reinforces the reality that you don’t have any ownership or control in “social media platforms”. it’s not about empowering usersthe thing is that corposoc removed customization because it didn’t fit their business needs. the so-called open alternatives do not question the design decisions they unwittingly inherit in their quest for “familiarity”

@djsundog @sungo i think instead of "groups" i'd prefer honest-to-god forums

@dansup that's a hoarding problem xD

@dansup Any "starter pack" concept implemented on the fediverse should definitely be opt-in rather than opt-out. Don't distribute anyone's handle in a starter pack until they've explicitly okay'd their presence there.But apart from the abusive potential, there are at least two other potential hazards:1. Poweruser creation: It's important to recognize that starter packs not only help new users find people to follow, they also expand the audience and influence of the people included on those lists. Accounts that end up on multiple starter packs will tend to amass large followings, giving them broader reach and greater pull on the entire network. That's a dynamic that we should be circumspect about unleashing.2. Gatekeeping: Similarly, if some people benefit disproportionately from inclusion on starter packs, others can be undercut by their exclusion from those lists. For example: A popular starter pack for astronomers could exclude an astronomer who disagrees with one of the maintainer's pet theories. The effect would be to marginalize a minority position on the network, while growing the following for the maintainer's preferred position.

@djsundog I really associate the phrase "information overload" with the six months after I graduated college and the studio apartment I moved into. I only connected my little black and white TV to the cable because I was hoping it would work as an antenna but I discovered it hadn't been turned off. I'd never lived anywhere with cable before and suddenly I had CNN. The aftermath of Tianenmen Square was still being understood. The Bay Area got hit by the Loma Prieta earthquake. The Berlin Wall fell. The Soviet Union collapsed. I watched a firing squad kill the Dictator of Romania. I'd get home from one of my two jobs and immediately turn it on to see what I'd missed.And then one day I picked up my phone to make a call. But it didn't go through. Instead I found myself in this amazing liminal telephone netherworld where I could hear a dozen or more conversations, all happening at once, against a background of electronic beeps. Just as I'd start to follow a couple sentences of one call it would vanish and its place be taken by another call. I sat listening to it for half an hour while trying to figure out a way to route the signal into my four-track cassette but couldn't get it to work.Having my first taste of 24-hour news was as earthshaking as the events it was covering. And that phone call became my personal metaphor for what it felt like.Then I got a dial up modem...

@djsundog thank you for indulging my linguistic nerdery